Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Man Jailed After Officers Are Shot at During Blaze : Crime: No one is injured in the gunfight with deputies. Officials say the fire stemmed from a domestic dispute at the Lancaster home.

A Lancaster man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly shooting at sheriff’s deputies trying to put out a fire at his home.

Wayne Luster, 49, was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail at the Antelope Valley Sheriff’s Station.

Firefighters and deputies responded to a report of a fire at 9:50 p.m. Wednesday at 1102 West Avenue J-9 to find Luster’s garage engulfed in flames, according to Sgt. Bobby Denham of the Lancaster Sheriff’s Department.

Deputies Richard Cocke, Darren Hager and John Rush arrived first on the scene and entered the garage after a neighbor told them a man was trapped inside a vehicle, Denham said.

After the deputies were driven out of the structure by smoke, shots rang out from the single-story home and a male voice yelled for them to leave, Denham said. Deputies retreated from the property and returned gunfire.

Denham said the exchange of gunfire went on for about five minutes, but no one was injured. Authorities are unsure how many shots were fired. The shooting stopped when additional deputies arrived.

More than 10 minutes later the suspect came out of the home and surrendered without further incident.

The fire reportedly began following an argument between Luster and his wife, Diana Luster, 51. Denham said Luster had been drinking earlier and became angry with her.

“He began ramming his car into the garage where his wife’s car was. He hit it so hard it forced her car through the back of the garage wall,” Denham said.

The collision is believed to have sparked the blaze. Diana Luster fled the home, going to the residence of her brother-in-law two blocks away. She was not injured.

Firefighters were prevented from trying to put out the flames for nearly 30 minutes because of the gunshots, according to Los Angeles County Fire Dispatcher Phil Ulloa. Fire Department policy requires fire crews to wait until an area is secured by law enforcement authorities.

With no one battling the blaze, it destroyed the garage, spread to the house and threatened nearby homes in the older residential neighborhood, causing an estimated $125,000 in damage. Both vehicles and a camper in the driveway were destroyed.

Deputies Cocke, Hager and Rush were taken to Antelope Valley Hospital for smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported.

“That’s an incident and a run that doesn’t happen very often,” said Inspector Mario De Fina, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. De Fina said it is “very seldom” that firefighters are kept away from a blaze because of a gunman.

Riot-related shootings prompted Los Angeles County fire engines to be equipped with bullet-proof vests, although firefighters do not wear them on all calls.

“Basically, it would have to be the type of incident where (gunshots are) confirmed,” De Fina said. “As of now, it’s under the discretion of the individual supervisor or individual firefighter.”

About 15 firearms, mostly rifles and a few handguns, were removed from a safe in the charred Lancaster home Thursday. Investigators said the safe and weapons were burned in the blaze, and they have not yet determined the weapons’ registration.

County inmate work crews helped sift through the house and remove the firearms.

According to Lt. Daniel Castillo of the Antelope Valley Sheriff’s Station, minimum security prisoners are supervised by deputies. The weapons were not loaded at the time the inmates handled them, he said.