Firefighters have rescued a man who was knocked unconscious by smoke after his boat caught fire in Aurora Harbor.
The Juneau Empire reports that Capital City Fire and Rescue officials were alerted to the emergency early Friday morning by a neighbor who reported smoke coming from the vessel.
Responding firefighters arrived to find black smoke coming from the main cabin of the 38-foot boat. Once inside, they quickly put out a smoldering fire and discovered an unconscious man in the boat’s rear berth.
The man, whose name has not been released, was transported to Bartlett Regional Hospital. Fire officials say he had been unconscious but responsive.
The damage to the vessel’s interior was estimated at $10,000.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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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