Fire Damages Duplex on Germantown Road

Fire damaged a duplex on Germantown Road early Wednesday morning.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, at 12:23 a.m. fire, police and EMS were dispatched to 610 S. Germantown Rd. on a reported residential fire.

Upon arrival crews reported heavy smoke and fire coming from a duplex. All occupants had self evacuated prior to our arrival.

Crews made an aggressive interior attack and contained the fire to one room. No injuries were reported. The Red Cross has been called to the scene to assist the occupants.

The origin and cause of the fire is under investigation by the fire departments fire investigation division.

“Great work to all that were involved,” Chief Williams wrote on the department’s Facebook page.

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.