KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An elderly man is recovering after being pulled from his burning home early Tuesday morning.
The fire broke out just before 2 a.m. near 46th and Bales.
Firefighters said that when they arrived, they saw flames and smoke pouring out of the back of the home.
Fire crews said they found an elderly man, who family identified as 77-year-old James Allen, in the back bedroom and had to pull him out of the home.
Allen was rushed to the hospital to be treated in the ICU for smoke inhalation.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames quickly, but the fire did cause significant damage to the home.
Investigators said they were still trying to determine what caused the fire. They did say the home did not have working smoke detectors.
“The tragedy is we don’t have any working smoke detectors in this home and with the push that we have right now with free smoke smoke detectors… those are very valuable tools to get people out of house fire as safe as possible,” Battalion chief James Garrett 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.
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