Tractor/Trailer Fire on I-24

This from East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams.

On September 22, 2019 at approximately 7:09 pm, East Ridge Fire and Police were dispatched to a reported vehicle fire located at 18300 block of Interstate 24 East bound.

Upon arrival units reported that the vehicle was a tractor trailer with the tractor totally involved with fire. Crews started an aggressive fire attack and called mutual aid for a Tanker from Chattanooga Fire. Chattanooga Tanker 8 and Quint 8 were dispatched to assist with needed water.

Chattanooga police and TDOT assisted our police with traffic control. The interstate was shut down for a short period of time on the east bound side while crews extinguished the fire.

“Great work (Blue Shift ERFD) Chattanooga Fire, East Ridge Police, Chattanooga Police, Hamilton County 911 Communications and TDOT.”

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.

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