Seattle Fire continued its busy day on Capitol Hill with a rescue callout to 15th and Pine Thursday night after two men reportedly wandered onto an unfamiliar property and fell into an open sewer construction hole.
The call just after 7 PM brought a ladder truck and police to the building at the northeast corner of the intersection. By 7:35 PM, one man had walked out while the other was rescued by firefighters using their truck’s ladder fitted with a hoist to rope the man up.
A witness tells CHS that two apparently inebriated men busted through a fence onto the condo building property and proceeded to fall into the about 10-foot deep sewer hole.
The victim lifted from the hole was being evaluated for injuries by medical personnel. We’ll check in with SPD to see if the victim was cited for entering the property.
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.
