Discharging Fireworks within City Limits is Illegal

You can purchase fireworks in East Ridge legally. You just can’t shoot them off within the city limits without potential consequences as that action is illegal.

Of course, this ordinance is largely ignored as the discharging of fireworks in East Ridge is common practice; none more than on major holidays like July 4th, Memorial Day, New Year’s Eve, Groundhog Day, Mother’s Day, Veteran’s Day, President’s Day, et al.

East Ridge Police Chief Stan Allen issued the following press release on Monday afternoon.

With the July 4^th holiday coming this weekend, the East Ridge Police Department wishes to remind citizens that the shooting of fireworks within the city limits is illegal. Anyone found to be shooting fireworks is subject to being issued a citation.

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.