SWAT teams rescue guards from "riot" at state prison in South Carolina

EDGEFIELD COUNTY, S.C. -- Two officers with the state Department of Corrections were treated at the scene of a prison riot at Trenton Correctional Institute in Edgefield County, reports CBS Charleston affiliate WCSC-TV.

The 611-inmate prison fell into bedlam after officers discovered one of the inmates was using a cell phone, the station says. 

When the officers tried to confiscate the phone from the inmate, other inmates began to rally around him and fought back. Six officers barricaded themselves inside one of the dorms due to the resulting inmate uprising.

Corrections Department spokesman Bryan Stirling said inmates began destroying dorms and setting fires in the prison yard.

Edgefield and Aiken County SWAT teams made it inside the prison and were able to rescue all six officers, reports CBS Augusta, Georgia affiliate WRDW-TV. 

No inmates were injured, WCSC says.

WRDW reports the officers' injuries vary, and investigators couldn't say how serious they were.

At least one AirMed helicopter was on the scene. Several ambulances were seen leaving the prison with their lights on.

Investigators told WRDW the "situation has stabilized."

The South Carolina Department of Corrections tweeted the first word of trouble: