CHELSEA (CBS) – A Chelsea woman was rescued from her third floor apartment after a Saturday morning fire that displaced several residents.
Flames broke out at 160 Broadway around 6 a.m. in a building that is across from the Chelsea Police Department.
The building includes a florist on the first floor and apartments on the second and third floors.
When firefighters arrived they learned a woman was trapped on the top floor. Crews reached the woman and found her laying on a bedroom floor covered in soot, fire officials told WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Kim Tunnicliffe.
The woman was trapped by a wall of fire, so firefighters pushed the flames back, dragged the woman out of the room and brought her down the stairs to a waiting ambulance.
She was taken to Mass General Hospital, though her condition was not immediately available.
Three residents also safely escaped the fire.
One firefighter slipped on the ice near the building and was transported to Mass General. Two other firefighters suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
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.
