Fire Damages RV at Camping World

No injuries were reported after a recreational vehicle caught fire in the parking lot of Camping World, late Saturday morning.

According to East Ridge fire officials, firefighters responded to 6734 Ringgold Road on a reported vehicle fire just after 11 a.m.. Battalion Chief Billy Quintrell said when firefighters arrived they found flames shooting from the RV and quickly extinguished the blaze.

Chief Quintrell said the RV was actually on Camping World property in Catoosa County, Georgia and ERFD turned over the incident to Catoosa County Fire Department.

Daniel Walston, Assistant Chief with Catoosa, said the owner of the RV, who apparently lives in Hixson, had brought it to Camping World to repair or replace a faulty refrigerator in the vehicle.

“The origin of the fire is where the refrigerator was,” Chief Walston said. “There may have been a malfunction in the refrigerator.”

_ James Cook contributed to this article

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.