UPDATE

Charles “Buddy” Chapman, 82, was found lying on a bedroom floor by Shelbyville firefighters. He was taken to Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital, then to a Nashville hospital.

Chapman was critically injured, said Fire Marshall Jason Richardson of the Shelbyville Fire Department.

Firefighters had not determined a cause as of Monday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called, Richardson said.

Chapman is “mobile and able to get around,” police were told. He is an active member of a local bowling league and was participating as recently as last week.

‘Family,’ but...

“Neighbors were claiming they were like family, but they did not know the victim of the fire,” Officer Dylan Farrar of the Shelbyville Police Department said in his report.

One neighbor named a man to police she said had been “taking care” of Chapman, but was in jail as of Monday.

Nearby residents called 911 around 10:15 p.m. reporting two “explosions.” One woman, who told police she’d been living next door to the home in a camper for the past week, said the blasts “threw me back like a movie scene and knocked everything out of my hand."

Another neighbor told firefighters propane tanks were inside the home.

Arriving firefighters found the front end and interior of a Dodge Durango SUV on fire next to a carport. The SUV was checked to make sure no one was inside.

All on-duty city police officers were sent to Locust Street and asked neighbors to leave their homes until the fire was under control.

A dog walked from the residence as the blaze was being fought. Officer Andrew Koehler took the uninjured dog to Shelbyville Animal Control.

Additional problem

Officers were also confronted with an allegedly-intoxicated neighbor attempting to fight the fire with a garden hose from his backyard.

Baltazar Ramirez Vazquez, 34, allegedly refused officers’ orders to back away. Ramirez allegedly kept yelling that a woman was inside the residence after firefighters had cleared each room and removed Chapman.

“He continued to interrupt the firefighters from doing their jobs,” Sgt. Chris Vest said. Vest said Ramirez smelled strongly of alcohol

Officers arrested Ramirez after he “became belligerant and yelling,” Vest said. He was charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication. Bond was set at $2,500.