ERFD Calls for Service in 2018

East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams announced via Facebook post, Tuesday, that the department will begin posting monthly reports on the fire department’s calls for service.

“I see questions on Facebook at times, such as, ‘I wonder where that fire truck is responding to? The fire department appears to be busy,'” Chief Williams said in the post.

“East Ridge happens to be the second busiest department in Hamilton County. So we are going to start posting our monthly reports for our friends on Facebook.”

Below is the annual report from 2018. The report shows all calls, including those to the City of Ridgeside, which has a long-standing contract with East Ridge.

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.