HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – Firefighters rescued two people from a burning home in Hampton early Wednesday morning.
Fire officials say the victims called 911 around 1 a.m. reporting fire coming from the first floor of their two-story duplex.
When fire crews arrived on the scene they found heavy flames shooting from the home and a person hanging out of one of the windows.
“It was huge flames, it’s like in a movie,” Chris Brock, who witnessed the fire, told 10 On Your Side’s Rico Bush. Brock said firefighters recovered a man from upstairs but was not sure if he was conscious or not. “He seemed to be breathing,” Brock said.
Medics took two people from the home to the hospital but their conditions were not immediately available.
The family who lived on the first floor of the duplex managed to escape the flames unharmed. The Red Cross was called to assist them.
Stay with WAVY.com for updates as they become available.
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.
