CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Chattanooga police officer whose split-second decision during a Hixson apartment fire was captured on video is now speaking publicly about the rescue that drew national attention.
Body camera video shows Chattanooga Police Officer Eli Rogers kicking down the door of a Hixson apartment after he was dispatched to a residential fire last month.
Rogers says that when he arrived, the front of the apartment was fully engulfed in flames.
Rogers says neighbors told him a family was still inside (a mother and her two children) prompting him to force his way in…