METRO VANCOUVER — A New Westminster resident is safe after being rescued from a burning building.
New Westminster Fire and Rescue Services attended a fire in a three-storey, wood-frame rooming house in the 1000 block of Sixth Avenue shortly after 6 a.m. today.
Deputy fire chief John Hatch said five occupants were in the home at the time of the fire, including one resident who had climbed from the third floor to a small roof on the second floor. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue the resident from the roof.
“We assisted five people out of the building, one from the side roof,” Hatch told the Record. “Fortunately, there were no injuries.”
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.
