More than 30 residents of a Gloucester County, New Jersey apartment complex were displaced by fire Sunday afternoon.
The fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Chestnut Lane apartments located along the 1200 block of Chestnut Lane in Deptford, county emergency dispatchers told NBC10.
Flames could be seen shooting from the windows and roof of the two-story structure as firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control.
Fire crews struck a second and third alarm as the flames spread to eight units in the complex.
Fire officials reported five people were rescued and taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The American Red Cross South Jersey reported 14 units have been damaged. The Red Cross is assisting at least 30 people, 8 of them children displaced by 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.
