Firefighters rescued a woman after she fell four stories and got stuck in a tiny gap between two buildings in Brooklyn on Monday night, Fire Department sources said.
The woman, who is in her early twenties, tumbled from the roof of a building and wedged into the tiny space, which was around 2 1/2-feet wide on Madison St. near Broadway in Bushwick around 9:30 p.m., an FDNY source said.
Two firefighters were lowered into the gap and used a tool to extricate the woman, fire sources said.
She was rushed to Kings County Hospital in serious but stable condition after the 45-minute rescue, authorities said.
The woman may have been intoxicated when she took the spill, sources said.
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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