Worcester Fire Special Operations rescues an iron worker who fell approximately 10 feet at the 90 Front Street City Square construction site Wednesday afternoon.
Worcester Fire Special Operations rescues an iron worker who fell approximately 10 feet at the 90 Front Street City Square construction site Wednesday afternoon.
An unidentified male was rescued by the Worcester Fire Department Special Operations team at approximately 2:45 p.m. today on the site of the City Square Construction project, off of Front Street.
While it is unclear as to exactly what happened at this point, according to officials on the scene, an approximately 40 year old male fell from a height between eight and 10 feet. Precautionary measures were taken as the man–an ironworker-experienced back pain, those extra steps caused the roughly half an hour rescue effort.
“We immediately called the special operations team,” said Deputy Chief Geoff Gardell. “We were unsure of how to extricate, but so far, so good.”
There were five firetrucks, an ambulance and several police cruisers on the scene and traffic at the intersection of Front Street and Foster Street was diverted at the time of this writing.
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.
