Fire Damages Cedar Glen Home

Photo courtesy of East Ridge Fire Department

A late night fire damaged a Cedar Glen Circle home on Wednesday.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, firefighters were dispatched to 418 Cedar Glen Circle at 11:01 p.m. When firefighters arrived heavy fire and smoke was coming from the two-story home. Crews made an aggressive interior attack, located and extinguished the fire.

Chief Williams said there were no injuries reported in the blaze and that a family pet was rescued from the burning residence.

“Great job Red Shift and all that were involved,” Chief Williams posted on the ER Fire and Rescue Facebook page.

Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.

The Red Cross was called to the scene to assist in helping the occupants of the home, officials said.

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.