MILTON-FREEWATER (AP) — An officer who had pulled over a pickup truck reported stolen Friday got off about 10 rounds before the truck hit him, authorities said.

A suspect fled on foot, and officers were combing Milton-Freewater for her on Friday.

The officer, not immediately identified, was hospitalized and expected to live.

“He’s going to be fine, I’m happy to report,” said Linda Hall, city manager of the Umatilla County town of nearly 7,000 people.

Officers checked on care centers and other medical locations on the chance the suspect might have been wounded, said District Attorney Dean Gushwa. He declined to say whether there was evidence she was actually hit.

The school district put area schools on safety alert, and students were urged to remain inside. But later in the morning Superintendent Marilyn McBride lifted the alert.

The pickup truck was reported stolen early Friday in nearby Pendleton. It had been left running in the driveway, Gushwa said.

“A gentlemen was getting ready to go to work,” Gushwa said. “He heard a door slam, and it was gone.”

The Milton-Freewater city police officer stopped the truck near a car wash on Oregon 11, which runs through the town and connects Pendleton and Walla Walla, Wash.

After he got out of his cruiser, the pickup drove toward the officer, Gushaw said, and the officer fired a .40-caliber, semiautomatic weapon.

Gushwa said he saw signs of at least eight rounds hitting the pickup truck, and a shattered windshield besides. He said he believed that 10 rounds were fired in all.

Initial reports said that the officer was left pinned beneath the pickup, but Gushwa said he could not confirm that.

Gushwa said that officers had not yet learned the suspect’s identity.