Pregnant Woman Rescued from Kentucky House Fire

Firefighters rescued a pregnant woman yesterday from a fire in one of the oldest buildings in Nicholasville, Kentucky.

According to the local CBS affiliate (http://bit.ly/1zuI2WG), multiple fire crews responded to the fire, which occurred in an apartment. Part of the multi-unit building was more than 200 years old, the wood of which Nicholasville Fire Department Battalion Chief David Johns said burns very quickly.

Firefighters say only one person, a pregnant woman, was inside the building at the time and was rescued from the structure’s first floor. According to the report, she was conscious when she was put into an ambulance.

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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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