Firefighters rescued several people who were trapped in a burning home off the Ocean City Boardwalk.
Crews were called to a three-story house on the 900 block of Saint Charles Place around 1:45 a.m. Sunday.
“The homeowner came down to find a room downstairs that had been on fire. He attempted to put the fire out himself, did not successfully do that. He was able to get out and call 911 at that point,” Ocean City Fire Chief Chris Breuning said.
Firefighters arrived and found six people on one deck and two more on another.
Crews were able to rescue all of them.
However, seven people, including a firefighter, suffered minor injuries.
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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