A man who was sleeping in a trash dumpster in Fort Valley Friday morning had to be rescued after being dumped into a garbage truck at the Old Wander Lodge Plant.
The driver of the garbage truck heard screaming from inside of the truck and saw 29-year-old Brian Keith Brown attempting to climb out of the side of the truck as the container was being emptied.
The driver immediately called 911 and requested help. Brown was pulled out of the truck by firefighters and police officers from the Fort Valley Department of Public Safety. He was treated at the scene then taken to the Peach County Medical Center.
“Thanks to the quick thinking of the garbage truck driver, the proper personnel were sent and were able to quickly,” Lawrence Spurgeon, the director of public safety in Fort Valley, stated in a news release. “Without his quick reaction, this could have easily been a tragic situation. We are just glad no one was seriously injured or hurt.”
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.
