Vehicle Fire on I-24

This from East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams: On April 23 at approximately 2:28 pm, East Ridge Fire and East Ridge Police were dispatched to a reported vehicle fire located in the 18300 block of Interstate 24 West bound. Chattanooga Fire was also dispatched due to the call being at the city limits and it was unclear on jurisdiction.

East Ridge units arrived on scene and reported a passenger vehicle heavy involved with fire. Crews started to extinguish the fire. Chattanooga Fire arrived and assisted East Ridge crews with manpower and additional water.

“Great job to Red Shift ( East Ridge Fire), East Ridge Police, Chattanooga Fire (Squad 13) and TDOT,” Chief Williams said on ER Fire and 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.

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