A woman was uninjured in a fire at her East Ship Harbour home Friday morning.
Firefighters found the woman upstairs in the one-and-a-half-storey home while a fire burned downstairs, but gave firefighters some hassle when they tried to rescue her, division commander Mike Blackburn said.
“We have reason to believe she may have known fire was going on the first floor, and (she) wasn’t co-operative with firefighters when we did arrive,” Blackburn said.
RCMP spokeswoman Const. Heidi Stevenson said the woman was detained under the Involuntary Psychiatric Assessment Act and is being assessed in hospital. The woman was alert and conscious when removed from the home, Stevenson said.
The fire started in a stove and spread from there, but there is no indication that the fire was intentional, Stevenson said.
Firefighters from three stations were called to the scene on Highway 7 just after 10:30 a.m. after someone down the street reported smoke coming from the structure. They found smoke coming from the second story when they arrived.
The flames were extinguished quickly and contained to the one room, Blackburn 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.
