Detroit firefighters had a busy, and heroic, Monday, rescuing two people and a dog from blazes in the city.
Crews rushed to the 16000 block of Marlowe on the city’s east side about 3:30 p.m. to battle a blaze.
Inside, they found two people, who were transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital for treatment of burns, said Edsel Jenkins, the city’s executive fire commissioner. No one else was at the home when the blaze started, he said.
Another fire was reported about 4:06 p.m. in the lower level of a home in the 2200 block of Field on the city’s east side, according to the Detroit Fire Department.
A trial firefighter pulled a dog inside to safety, Jenkins said. The owner tearfully held onto the black dog, saying he’d lost most of his belongings in the fire.
“They’re some of the hardest-working firefighters on the planet,” Jenkins said. “They respond to each alarm with 1,000 percent in terms of effort to protect lives and extinguish fires.”
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.
