DENVER – Firefighters rescued a man from a burning home in Denver early Thursday morning.
The fire broke out at a home at West 38th Avenue and Zuni Street just before 12:30 a.m.
Flames were shooting out from the roof of the home when 7NEWS crews arrived at about 12:45 a.m.
Firefighters pulled one man out of the home but he declined treatment at the hospital.
Two women were taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and have since been released.
Santana Martinez, a neighbor, told 7NEWS he went to the back of the house and tried to help the homeowner put out the flames but the fire was too intense
Firefighters and witnesses told 7NEWS Reporter Tyler Lopez that the homes in the area date back to the 1940s and ’50s and the aged wood they’re made of helped the fire burn hotter and spread through the home.
Investigators are still determining the cause of the fire, but firefighters said there was heavy damage in the kitchen and that the flames appear to have spread from there to the attic.
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.
