TONGANOXIE, Kan. —Firefighters rescued a 105-year-old woman from a house fire early Tuesday morning.
Fire crews were called to the 100 block of E. Sixth Street about 5 a.m.
The woman’s nephew, Jackson Jarrett, lives nearby and told arriving firefighters that his aunt was unable to make it out.
“Thank God the fire department arrived,” he said. “They were able to pull the window open, I told her where she was, they got in there, got her out, got her on a stretcher, got her in the ambulance and of course she didn’t want to go at the time, she’s pretty strong.”
Firefighters said Ann Jarrett was taken to a hospital. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening. Family members said she could be released from the hospital on Wednesday, though her home sustained too much damage for her to go back there.
“(It) definitely turned out to be a whole lot better story than it could have been today, so I’m extremely grateful and feeling blessed,” Jackson Jarrett said.
He said the family is working on figuring out where Ann Jarrett will live once she leaves the hospital.
Investigators said the fire was electrical in nature and likely started because of an overloaded extension cord.
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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