SAN ANTONIO — A child and a man were rescued from a west-side fire late Sunday evening.
The blaze broke out in the 300 block of Trinity just after 10 p.m.
Firefighters were able to quickly knock out the fire and rescue the man and child before they suffered serious injury. They were treated for smoke inhalation.
Investigators said they were told the fire started by an electrical short in a wall unit, but when they checked it out, it wasn’t plugged in.
Arson was called to investigate and said a 5-year-old playing with a lighter lit an AC unit.
Only one room of the house was affected. About $2,000 dollars worth of damage was caused.
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.
