An attempt to serve a warrant Tuesday night turned into a full fire response and an arrest after a man tried to burn down a Trumble Creek Road home.

A dog was rescued from the burning home and resuscitated by firefighters.

Daniel Lee English, a 40-year-old Kalispell man, is now in jail on preliminary charges of resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer or public servant, arson, criminal endangerment, and cruelty to animals, as well as on a $35,000 warrant out of Lewis and Clark County and a $10,000 warrant out of Broadwater County.

According to Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry, deputies went to the home at 1584 Trumble Creek Road around 9:30 p.m. after receiving a report earlier that day that English was there.

English was being sought on  two warrants after absconding from probation in October 2012 on theft and bad-check convictions.

When deputies knocked on the front door, English tried to run out the back, but a deputy was waiting there for him, so he ran back inside.

“We tried to get him outside,” Curry said. “He shouted many times, ‘I’ll burn the place down!,’ and then we saw him pouring gas from a gas can inside the house.”

As deputies called for firefighters, English ignited the gasoline. Eventually, he had to escape the conflagration and exited through the back door.

When he ran into deputies outside, he continued to refuse to comply with their commands.

“So he was immobilized with a Taser and taken into custody,” Curry said.

Responders from Evergreen Fire Rescue briefly had their hands full fighting the fire — which burned throughout the house — and clearing the house to make sure there was no one left inside.

But they did find a dog.

“In the back room, me and my partner [Josh Cox] found a dog,” Evergreen firefighter Clint Bates said. “It was not looking well at all, so [Josh] busted out the window and we handed the dog out.”

Outside, firefighter Jared Pitcher took the dog and, with the help of firefighter Wayne Evert and a special pet oxygen mask recently donated to the department, administered oxygen.

“It helped the dog come out of the oxygen deprivation it was suffering from,” Bates said. “The dog made a full recovery. Within about 10 minutes the dog was up and walking around. The biggest thing was that it needed to get out of the building.”

Bates said the fire department was at the scene for about two hours.

In addition to the Sheriff’s Office and Evergreen Fire Rescue, the Kalispell and West Valley fire departments assisted.

Reporter Jesse Davis may be reached at 758-4441 or by email at jdavis@dailyinterlake.com.