Chris Bonanno

FLORIDA TODAY

Update, 5:20 p.m. Friday:

A Cocoa man has been charged after police say he grabbed an axe belonging to Brevard County Fire Rescue and smashed a window in his home that was on fire on Wednesday morning.

According to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, when police arrived they saw a male screaming from inside his home, looking for his dogs.

After being asked a number of times to leave, he left the residence but then tried to walk back in several times, all the while being given orders not to go in. Officers say he had to be physically restrained twice.

Finally, the man took an axe and went toward the house, throwing it through what police say is an already smashed broken window. They add that BCFR personnel were on the other side of the window.

Wendell Joyner, 58, was charged with breach of peace-disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence. He was taken to Wuesthoff Hospital in Rockledge before being taken to the Brevard County Jail but has since been released.

"I got out of the house, and then I realized, "Oh, wait a minute, my dogs are in there," Joyner told FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG. "So, I went back inside to look for my dogs."

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Original story:

Two adults and their two pets have been displaced from their home because of smoke damage after a small fire broke out in the bedroom of their home on the 2300 block of Victor Road in West Cocoa overnight, according to Brevard County Fire Rescue.

There were no injuries in the blaze, BCFR added.