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SWAT Team Takes Over Fla. Woman's Home

Orders her out for several hours

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A Jacksonville, Fla., homeowner said she was ordered out of her house by members of a SWAT team who were responding to an incident at a neighbor's residence.

"The cop goes 'You all need to leave, you can't be in your house,'" Deborah Franz said, describing the SWAT team response to her next-door neighbor's loud fighting, to a local station. She did leave — for the whole six hours standoff that ensued between SWAT agents and someone in her neighbor's home. Afterward, officers cleared the scene and allowed her to access her home.