Kudos to ERFD

I live a few doors up from the folks who had the fire at 6607 State Line Road. I would like to personally thank the firefighters of East Ridge for the quick response.

Although the family pet didn’t make it, it was not from a lack of trying. I witnessed a couple of firefighters doing CPR and mouth-to-mouth on that beautiful chocolate lab. I know the family is grieving and I grieve with them. It was really sad to watch.

But again, kudos to the fire department and everyone else for such a valiant effort.

_ Angie Westbrook

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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