Fire Destroys RV

A fire destroyed a recreational vehicle that the owner was trying to move from his yard on Tuesday morning.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, the fire was reported just before 9:30 a.m. at 1312 Pleasant Street. When firefighters arrived the recreational vehicle was about 50 percent consumed by flames. Firefighters quickly got the blaze under control. No injuries were reported.

Chief Williams said that when he was en route to the fire, thick, black smoke was rising into the sky clearly visible from Ringgold Road. Chief Williams said because of the smoke he thought a structure may have been involved.

Chief Williams said that the owners of the RV told him that they were trying to move the vehicle from a yard and it became stuck. The owners noticed a fire under the hood and doused it with water, which only made the fire worse. Chief Williams said the cause of the fire is most probably accidental.

Video 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.