Man Rescued in Montreal

MONTREAL — Firefighters rescued a man who was dangling from the third storey of a building on Mountain Sights Ave. in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough Wednesday afternoon.

The man reportedly fell from scaffolding on the building’s sixth floor to its third just before 3 p.m. Firefighters were called to the scene and used their crane-like ladder to retrieve the victim.

The man, who was doing maintenance work on the outside of the building, was taken away in an ambulance just before 4 p.m.

His condition remains unclear.

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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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