SEATTLE — Firefighters used a ladder to rescue a woman trapped inside her second story apartment during an early Saturday morning apartment fire in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood.
Firefighters arrived at an apartment building in the 1000 block of South Thistle Street at about 3:30 a.m. after getting calls about a fire and a woman being trapped inside, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
When they arrived, fire crews found flames shooting out of the building. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue a tenant who was trapped inside her second story apartment.
Three other residents were able to escape the flames on their own, and none of the occupants needed any medical attention.
Firefighters made quick work of the blaze, knocking it down in roughly 20 minutes. The fire was completely extinguished 45 minutes after crews arrived.
It’s unclear what sparked the fire, but Investigators believe it started outside of the building and then spread inside. The Seattle Police Arson Bomb Squad was called to assist in the investigation, according to fire officials.
The fire investigator determined the damage estimate is $200,000 to the structure and $100,000 to the contents.
One overheated firefighter was taken to Harborview Medical Center as a precaution.
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.
