Tree Falls on Car; Traps Occupant, Knocks Out Power

A tree fell across power lines and onto a car, Thursday morning, causing power outages in the area.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, at 10:28 a.m, fire, police and an ambulance were dispatched to a vehicle crash with entrapment in the 800 block of Belvoir Avenue.

When first responders arrived they discovered a tree was on top of a vehicle and a person was trapped inside. Hydraulic extrication tools were used to remove the occupant.

Chief Williams said that apparently the occupant of the vehicle suffered only minor injuries and refused transport to a hosptial.

“Great work to all that were involved,” Chief Williams posted on the City of East Ridge Fire & Rescue 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.