Two Taken to Hospital Following SWAT Standoff at Burning Home

A male and female were transported for hospital treatment Wednesday after the man threatened his family with a gun, barricaded himself in a home in the Park Lake Estates subdivision and was removed from within by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office's SWAT Team after a fire started there. 

The incident started at 4323 Chipmunk Drive, according to a media alert from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. The family got out and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office's SWAT Team arrived. The call came at 3:37 p.m. The first notice of the incident said the man was possibly armed.

The Sheriff's Office reported after 5 p.m. that a fire had been started in the home. The SWAT Team continued talking to him. They then removed him. he was flown to a hospital with injuries.

It took 30 to 45 minutes to extinguish the fire, and it claimed "quite a bit" of the home, said James Maynard, a battalion chief with Pasco County Fire Rescue.  A woman from the home was also hospitalized for medical treatment, he said. A fire rescue worker sustained smoke inhalation and was treated.

Authorities did not identify the man or woman or release their conditions.

The house has a bad reputation. Residents said it's a quiet neighborhood, for the most part.

"That's probably the one house in this entire complex that sticks out like a sore thumb," said Jesse Proctor, a 21-year-old who said he lives next door.