A 4-year-old girl was rescued by St. Paul firefighters and taken to the hospital with serious injuries Sunday evening, but she later died at the hospital. Ntshialiag Yang had just celebrated her 4th birthday on Jan. 31.
The fire broke out at 595 Jessamine Avenue E., just east of Interstate 35E off of Maryland Avenue, before 9 p.m. Sunday. Three family members were treated on-scene for various levels of smoke inhalation.
St. Paul Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard said the girl suffered serious smoke inhalation. The child’s grandfather saved 6 others from the fire including 4 children and 2 adults, but couldn’t get back inside. All surviving family members were released from the hospital Monday afternoon.
This is the first fire-related death of 2015 in St. Paul.
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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