Multiple news outlets reported that one officer was dead and four were injured.
A person answering the telephone at the county emergency department said he was not at liberty to provide further details.
WPDE-TV, based in Florence, reported that three Florence County sheriff's deputies and two Florence city police officers were shot in the incident in a residential subdivision known as Vintage Place.Florence, a city of about 38,000 people, is in the heart of the historical Pee Dee region of northeastern South Carolina that was drenched by heavy rains and flooding from Hurricane Florence.