Kitchen Fire Damages House on Marlboro

A kitchen fire in a house on Marlboro Avenue was quickly extinguished by the East Ridge Fire Department, early Tuesday evening.

According to Fire Chief Mike Williams, firefighters responded to 1310 Marlboro Ave. just after 6 p.m. on a reported house fire. Upon arrival light smoke was found coming from the structure. Crews quickly located and extinguished the fire which was in the kitchen.

Chief Williams said the fire appears to be accidental and no injuries were reported.

“Great job to Red Shift and all that were involved,” Williams said.

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.