Fire Damages Frawley Rd. Home

The following is a press release from the East Ridge Fire Department.

On 1-13-2016, a residential fire was reported at 529 Frawley Rd. East Ridge TN 37412.

Upon arrival of East Ridge Fire and Police, heavy smoke and fire was found coming from a single family dwelling. Fire crews made an interior attack and quickly extinguished the fire. The occupant had self evacuated prior to our arrival and had been trying to extinguish the fire, but was unsuccessful.

He was checked by Lifeguard EMS and refused treatment. The estimated dollar loss to be approximately $ 30,000.

East Ridge Squad One, Squad Two, Quint One, Engine One, Engine Two, Support One, Battalion One, Lifeguard EMS, and East Ridge a Police responded.

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.