LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Firefighters saved a man by rescuing him from a second story window during an apartment fire early Saturday morning in the 3000 block of Poplar Level Road near Norton Audubon Hospital.
Louisville Fire and Rescue crews responded to the fire just before 5:30 a.m., according to Fire Captain Salvador Melendez. They found flames coming from the front of the building.
Firefighters rescued a man who was trapped on the second floor. He was transported to University Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, according to emergency personnel. A family member told WAVE 3 News he is expected to be okay.
Crews were able to stop the fire from spreading from the apartment in which it started. However, the damage to the apartment was extensive, said Capt. Melendez. It took firefighters 15 minutes to control the fire.
The building had a total of four apartments with eight residents. The other occupants in the building at the time of the fire were not injured.
Arson investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.
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.
