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Fire Damages House on Close Road

July 16, 2019 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

This from East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams:

On July 15, at approximately 12:48 p.m. East Ridge Fire, Police and Puckett EMS were dispatched to a reported residential fire located at 1913 Close Rd.

Upon arrival heavy smoke was reported coming from the structure. All occupants were reported to be out with one family pet inside.

Photo courtesy of Brent McDonald

Crews made an aggressive interior attack locating the fire in the kitchen area. Crews also located the family pet and started life saving procedures. East Ridge Animal Services was called and transported the pet to a local veterinarian for smoke inhalation. Even though with all of our efforts, the family pet did not survive.

A Mutual Aid request was made for an air truck from Walker County Fire to the scene and a Mutual Aid fill-in assignment from Chattanooga Engine 15 at our station one. I want to thank Blue Shift (fire), all off duty firefighters, East Ridge Police, Puckett EMS, East Ridge Animal Services and the Mutual Aid companies for a job well done.

Photo courtesy of Brent McDonald

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, News

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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