Listen: 911 Call Details Alleged Arson of Neighbor's Cartersville Home

Editor's Note: The video clip above contains explicit language.

Bartow County Sheriff's Office provided this recording of the call Marty Corbitt made to 911 on Wednesday as his neighbor, Phillip Rodger Bennett, 58, allegedly set Corbitt's 18 Boatner Avenue home on fire.

For some time, the neighbors had been at odds about Corbitt's high grass. Displeased with his neighbor's lawn and worried that a confrontation between the two a week earlier would send him back to prison, Bennett allegedly doused the house with gasoline and lit it while Corbitt and his 3-year-old daughter were inside.

In connection with the incident, Cartersville Police Department authorities have charged Bennett, of 17 Boatner Avenue, with a number of crimes, including first-degree arson, two counts of aggravated assault with intent to murder, burglary and cruelty to children. 

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