MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – Milwaukee firefighters revived a five-year-old boy, after he was unresponsive while being rescued from a house fire.
It happened at a two-story duplex on Milwaukee’s northwest side.
Flames were shooting from the lower floor when units arrived just after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday — and they were told that the youngster was trapped inside.
Assistant fire chief Dan Lipski said his officers found the child on the first floor in just minutes. The boy was hardly breathing at the time, and he had some burns.
After he was revived, rescuers took him to a hospital — and officials expect him to survive. A woman and 3 others in the home escaped without injury.
Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the fire. It took about an hour-and-a-half for firefighters to get it under control.
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.
