TRENTON — A woman who jumped from the “Trenton Makes” bridge in an apparent suicide attempt was pulled from the Delaware River by rescue crews unharmed Tuesday morning.
The woman, whose name and age were not immediately available, jumped from the bridge shortly after 7 a.m., Trenton Fire Chief Frank Seidel said.
Rescue crews dispatched a boat and found the woman in the river several hundred yards south of the bridge, near Arm & Hammer Park. She was pulled from the river and brought to emergency crews on the docks near the baseball park.
The woman told rescue crews that she intended to harm herself, Seidel said.
“Other than being wet, she’s physically fine,” Seidel 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.
