Lake County firefighters rescued an unconscious woman from a Mount Dora home engulfed in smoke Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters responded to a 12:44 p.m. call for help at 2760 E. Land Road just west of the city center. When they arrived, firefighters saw smoke could coming from the eaves of the one-story home, Assistant Fire Chief Jack Fillman said.
The smoke was so dense, Fillman said, that firefighters couldn’t see and had to feel their way around each room before finding the woman. The woman was discovered in the hallway by her bedroom but had no burns on her body. After pulling the woman from the home, emergency crews helped revive her. She was coherent and speaking by the time a helicopter arrived to fly her to Orlando Regional Medical Center, Fillman said.
Curt Isakson is a 35 year veteran of the fire service. Curt is currently a Battalion Chief for Escambia County Fire Rescue. Previously worked 9 years with the Pensacola Fire Department where he was assigned as the Company Officer on Rescue 31. Curt’s fire service experiences started at a young age as a Junior firefighter with the Midway Fire Protection District and rose through the ranks to Captain. He has worked in volunteer, career, and combination departments.
Curt has held all ranks up to Battalion Chief and been assigned to operations, training, inspections, and was Chief of Special Operations for 7 years. Curt owns and operates County Fire Tactics that covers a very diverse range of fire service topics, as well as Firefighter Rescues, a site that documents rescues made by firefighters around the country.
He has annual contracts with numerous departments to provide standardized monthly training for these departments that respond daily together under an automatic aid agreement. Curt teaches nationally to include; FDIC, Firehouse Expo, Firehouse World, Orlando Fire Conference, Atlanta Fire Conference, Bowling Green State University, and owns/operates the annual HROC, COBC, WOTF, CFT ODP on Pensacola Beach. He is a Florida Certified Fire Officer, Instructor, Inspector, Arson, and FLUSAR.
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