*Watch* Video of Hoist Rescue.
Rescue Details:
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 1404 hours, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Palos Verdes Verdes Estates Police Department received a 911 call reporting that a person had fallen from a cliff to the rocky beach below.
Los Angeles County Fire initiated a Coast Rescue response including Firefighters, Paramedics, Urban Search and Rescue personnel, a Paramedic rescue helicopter, and a Lifeguard rescue boat.
Lifeguards from Baywatch Redondo spotted a group of people waving from the beach at Bluff Cove, a remote and rocky portion of the Palos Verdes coastline.
The LACoFD Copter 14 inserted a Firefighter/Paramedic to the location where an approximately 50 year old male was found with critical injuries. A Lifeguard swam from the Rescue Boat to the shore to assist in the treatment of the patient.
The helicopter hoisted the patient from the remote beach and he was flown immediately to a local hospital.
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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