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Man arrested for saving dog from a burning
building.
Nashville Metro police say they were right to cite a
man who rescued his dog from a burning apartment building in West
Nashville on April 16, 2003.
Jarrod T. Martin, 26, who lived in the apartments, was handcuffed, held by
officers and cited for disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment after
he entered the burning building and rescued his dog. Martin was not
booked into the Metro Jail.
The Metro Police Department received a barrage of telephone calls from
people who were watching television footage captured by a bystander and
aired on local television stations, said Don Aaron, police spokesman.
Letters were also sent to The Tennessean from outraged readers who had
dubbed Martin a ''hero,'' and who were concerned that Martin was taken
into custody.
Fire officials said Martin used a fireman's hook pole to break the window
of his apartment at 6565 Premiere Drive, then entered the smoke-filled
apartment room.
Police content that Martin put firefighters in danger by entering the
building, diverting their attention from the blaze, and could have caused
a ''back draft,'' a flash fire caused by a sudden rush of oxygen.
Fire officials and police had warned Martin it was too dangerous to go to
the apartment and told him not to go inside, but he went anyway.
Martin received a minor cut but was otherwise uninjured, officials said.
Source: Nashville Tennessean, "Police defend decision
to cite man who rushed into burning apartment to save dog " April 17,
2003.
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