A Via Christi Hospital St. Francis house supervisor said a man who sustained burns in an apartment fire in northeast Wichita on Saturday evening remained in critical condition on Sunday.
Firefighters responded to an apartment fire in the 2000 block of North Old Manor at The Timbers apartment complex shortly before 8 p.m., a Sedgwick County dispatcher said.
Upon arrival, firefighters found a 41-year-old man trapped inside the one-story apartment, the dispatcher said. Firefighters located the man in his bed, and Fire Battalion Chief Ernie Schuler said crews do not think the man was ambulatory.
Emergency medical services units transported the man to Via Christi Hospital St. Francis in critical condition. The victim suffered second- to third-degree burns, Schuler said.
The fire caused $10,000 in structural damage and $5,000 in property damage, Schuler said.
Crews are still working to determine the cause of the fire, he said.
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.
