Fire Damages Duplex

An early morning fire damaged a duplex on McBrien Road, Friday.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, first responders were dispatched to 1120 McBrien Road at 2:44 a.m. When firefighters arrived they found smoke coming from a duplex. Crews went inside the apartment and located a second-story room that was ablaze. The fire was contained to that one room and extinguished.

“Great job to the Green Shift and all that were involved,” Chief Williams said.

Chief Williams said no injuries were reported in the incident that caused about $20,000 worth of damage to the structure. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Photo courtesy of East Ridge Fire Department

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.