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Shelter-in-place order lifted in Elba after incident involving firearm, sheriff says

An incident involving a firearm Friday night in the southeastern city of Elba, Minnesota, prompted a shelter-in-place order that has since been lifted, according to the Winona County Sheriff's Office. 

The shelter-in-place order was for the area of County Road 26 and Highway 74, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post at 7:25 p.m. 

At 9:40 p.m., crisis negotiators were talking with someone and "trying to bring the situation to a peaceful ending," the sheriff's office said. 

A male was taken into custody without incident at 10:20 p.m., and the shelter-in-place order was canceled, according to officials.

Officials were asking people there to lock doors and windows, not to go outside and not to call 911 or the sheriff's office's nonemergency number to ask for updates.

"Our dispatchers are very busy and will not provide you with any information," the sheriff's office said. 

As of early Saturday, the circumstances of the incident aren't known. 

Elba is around 25 miles east of Rochester, Minnesota.

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