A Florida man faces misdemeanor charges after allegedly ignoring firefighters’ orders by trying to save his dogs from his burning home.

Brevard County firefighters responded early Wednesday to Wendell Joyner’s Victor Road house in Cocoa, where a blaze erupted in a TV set and spread, clickorlando.com reported.

“I got out of the house, and then I realized, ‘Oh, wait a minute, my dogs are in there,’” Joyner said. “So I went back inside to look for my dogs.”

Joyner was overcome by the choking smoke so he kept going out to breathe.

He said he saw an opportunity and grabbed a firefighter’s ax, which he flung through a window, cops said.

Joyner, who was tackled by deputies, said he was taken to a hospital for a CAT scan and then to jail.

He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

“My defense is — I was trying to save my dogs,” he said.

Joyner questioned why deputies used so much force as they arrested him.

Brevard County sheriff’s spokesman David Jacobs said the deputies thought Joyner was drunk and they were concerned when he grabbed the ax.

“I think at the most, they should’ve taken me aside, and if they felt that I needed it — to be in a squad car until things settled,” Joyner said.

Joyner’s dogs were eventually rescued.