Photos from Chattanooga 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

Personnel from the East Ridge Fire Department and East Ridge Police Department participated in the Chattanooga 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb, Sunday at Finley Stadium.

Director Britt Bradshaw, a Chattanooga Firefighter, said this is the first year the event has been held at Finley Stadium. In previous years the stair climb – done to memorialize the selfless service of first responders to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 – took place at high rise buildings in downtown Chattanooga. Bradshaw said this year more than 300 people participated, the most in the six-year event.

This was the first year that the ERPD participated in the climb. The officers participating were: Eric Massenagle, Garrett Hawks, Andrew Carter, Scott Darwin, Josh Creel, Robbie Wade, Steven Rhudy, and Ashley Hewitt.

The ERFD was represented for the sixth consecutive year by Drew Andrews and Randy Albright. They were joined by Tyler Ezell, Bryan Dean and Daniel Bernard.

Below is a gallery of photos from the event.

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.