Fire Displaces Two Families on Christmas Eve

Several East Ridge families have been displaced from their apartments after a fire in the predawn hours of Christmas Eve.

Firefighters were called to 1105 Sewanee Drive after midnight. When they arrived on the scene they found a fire in the electrical breaker panel box of one apartment, said Fire Chief Mike Williams. No injuries were reported.

Two of the apartments in the eight-unit complex are without power, he said. The other six apartments were not affected by the fire.

The Red Cross has been called in to assist one of the families’ affected by the fire, Chief Williams said.

East Ridge News Online will update this story when more information becomes available.

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.