Fire Damages House on Bales Avenue

This from East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, via East Ridge Fire and Rescue Facebook page:

On Wednesday, April 10 at approximately 9:30 p.m., East Ridge Fire and Police were dispatched to a reported Residential fire located at 122 Bales Ave.

First arriving units reported light smoke coming from the roof area of a single story residential structure. Fire crews located and extinguished the fire in the attic area. Crews then check for fire extension and conducted an extensive overhaul of the burned area.

No injuries were reported and the fire damage was estimated to be approximately $10,000.

“Great job to Blue Shift (fire) and East Ridge Police,” Williams said.

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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