during the fire or shooting, but the house remained ablaze for several hours Saturday.

The other wounded deputy's injuries are not believed to be serious.

Caracus Court is tucked away in residential neighborhood Plantation Woods off Fred George Road. The quiet neighborhood near Springwood Elementary School is filled with single-family homes.

During the afternoon, dozens of vehicles of police and residents who were unable to get to their houses within the multi-block crime scene lined the streets of the neighborhood. City buses were brought into the neighborhood to provide shelter from the rain.

Neighbors say they heard a series of alarming gunshots in the early morning hours.

Brad Baker, 23, was at work at the time of the shooting.

"My wife was sleeping, and she heard a bunch of gunshots and then she saidthey were followed by even more," he said. "She called me so I rushed home immediately."

Baker's wife, Lola, and their one-year-old daughter, Ariana, were very unnerved by what they heard.

"One of the main reasons why I moved here was because there were so many police officers and firemen in this neighborhood, and it's crazy to think something like that could happen right down the street," Baker said.

Elmira Davis, a Tallahassee educator who lives in the neighborhood, was not home at the time of the shooting. But, she said, the incident was unsettling.

"I feel that it was the presence of Jesus that prevented more injuries or fatalities," Davis said. "This is a very quiet middle-class neighborhood off of Fred George Road near Springwood (elementary). We've not had any trouble