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Refrigerator Sparks Fire on Prigmore

November 19, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

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East Ridge firefighters douse a refrigerator which caught on fire in the kitchen of a home on Prigmore Road, Saturday morning.

A refrigerator catching on fire damaged the kitchen of a house on Prigmore Road, Saturday morning.

East Ridge firefighters were called to 1700 Prigmore Rd. at 7:15 a.m., officials said. Residents of the home had attempted to put a fire out in the kitchen. 

Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze that was contained to the kitchen. Officials said a faulty refrigerator was the apparent origin of the fire. 

The residents of the home were checked out by emergency medical personnel. Nobody required further medical attention, officials said.

 

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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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