Gunman dead after Idaho shooting kills two firefighters and wounding another

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A gunman ambushed and shot dead two firefighters responding to a forest fire in northern Idaho in the United States on June 29 during an hours-long incident before the suspect was found dead, said the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office.  A third wounded firefighter was "fighting for his life" after surgery and was in a stable condition.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Testing 1, 2, 3, testing 1, 2, 3.

00:30We had a cell phone activation that was in the same spot since about 3.16.

00:38And it was in the same area, and we honed in on that cell phone,

00:47and we saw that there was a male, appeared to be deceased, with a weapon nearby.

00:53So we have currently one dead shooter based on the preliminary investigation that was being conducted,

01:04but based on the preliminary information, we believe that is the only shooter that was on that mountain at that time.

01:13So there is no threat to the community at this time.

01:19We had two helicopters that were up, and we had snipers in them.

01:24So if they had an opportunity to take a shot, then we wanted them to take that shot.

01:33We wanted to neutralize that threat.

01:34We did lose a Coeur d'Alene firefighter, and we did lose a firefighter from the Cooney County Fire and Rescue.

01:44We have another firefighter that just came out of surgery from the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department.

01:48He is fighting for his life, but he's in stable condition.

01:52We do believe that the suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it was an ambush, and it was intentional.

02:03And, yeah, we do believe that he started it, and it was totally intentional what he did.

02:10We believe that there's a likelihood that when we are able to enter the scene again tomorrow without the threat of fire,

02:18that we'll find other weapons that were placed.

02:20So this was a total ambush.

02:23These firefighters did not have a chance.

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