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You are here: Home / Community / Lightning Strike May Have Sparked Fire at Condos

Lightning Strike May Have Sparked Fire at Condos

August 13, 2019 By Dick Cook 1 Comment

East Ridge firefighters along with a full complement of mutual aid departments responded to a fire that may have been caused by a lightning strike at the Belvoir Hills Estates condominiums at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, a resident of the unit was transported to Erlanger Hospital. That person’s condition is unknown. Chief Williams said a firefighter was also taken to Erlanger but later released. A second firefighter was treated at the scene for minor burns.

According to a press release, firefighters and EMS were called to the scene at 8:23 p.m. on a reported apartment fire with a person trapped on the second floor.

Crews arrived on the scene and reported heavy smoke coming from the apartment building. One crew deployed a ground ladder to a second floor window and rescued a victim, while a second crew entered the structure to locate and extinguish the fire, Chief Williams said.

A second alarm was requested from Mutual Aid. Second alarm companies were Chattanooga Quint 13, Squad 13, Squad 7, Deputy Chief Boatwright, Catoosa Engine 7 and Hamilton County Marine Rescue rehab.

An engine from Tri-Community and Rossville Fire Department were assigned to Station 1 at East Ridge as part of Mutual Aid, officials said.

Chief Williams said the cause of the blaze appears to have been a lightning strike.

Filed Under: Community, FEATURED POSTS, News, SLIDER

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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