VES GRAB

On March 26 at 2:30 AM, the Las Cruces Fire Department, New Mexico responded to a single-wide mobile home fire with confirmed entrapment. The occupants of the home were awakened to the smell of smoke and encountered heavy fire in the hall outside their bedroom door. Two adults and an infant were able to escape out a window. Their three year old boy remained trapped in his bedroom. The father’s attempts to rescue him were unsuccessful because of the conditions.

The first arriving engine company reported heavy fire engulfing 40% of the mobile home. Firefighters performed a VES of the boys bedroom and removed him. He was unresponsive and efforts to revive him on scene were unsuccessful.

This is the Las Cruces Fire Department’s fourth grab in as many months:
December 10 – http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/12/10/residential-fire-claims-womans-life/95263972/
February 6 – http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2017/02/07/firefighters-rescue-woman-burning-apartment/97591618/
February 27 – http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2017/02/27/las-cruces-fire-claims-life-67-year-old-man/98479666/
March 26 – http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2017/03/26/toddler-dies-las-cruces-house-fire/99663762/
http://kfoxtv.com/news/local/4-year-old-boy-dies-in-las-cruces-house-fire-early-sunday-morning

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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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