Rope Rescue in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis firefighters were called upon to perform a tactical rope rescue Sunday to aid an ill man under a bridge.

Emergency crews were alerted to a 53-year-old male suffering an unknown illness at 1:45 p.m. Sunday.

Responders arrived to find a complicated situation: An apparently homeless man who had been living underneath the bridge at Oliver Avenue and West McCarthy Street and was too sick to make it back up on his own.

Firefighters were called to perform a basket rescue – raising the man 20 feet to the bridge for medical transport.

The unidentified man was taken to Eskenazi Health, where he was listed in good condition.

Click on the video player above to see part of the rescue in action.

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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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