Officials say two people have been badly shot in a hill community in the western American state of Idaho, while responding to the brush fire, the officials say.
Robert Noris, the office of Kootenai County Sheriff, stated that at least one active shooter was firing in law enforcement with a high -power rifle near the city of Coeur D’E Alene.
Sheriff Noris said, “We are actively taking sniper fire as we say,” the authorities reported that the authorities reported bullets coming from different directions. Residents have been asked to avoid the scene on Canfield Mountain.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agents were responding to “providing strategic and operational support”. Governor Brad Little posted on X that “many brave firefighters” were attacked.
“This is a heinous direct attack on our brave firefighters,” said the governor. “I ask all the Idhas to pray for him and his families because we wait to learn more.”
He said: “As this situation is still developing, please be clear from the region to allow law enforcement and firefighters to do their work.”
Sheriff Noris said at a news conference that “we do not know that there are one, two, three or four” shooters at the scene, which is about four miles (6.5 km) north of the Central Koir D’Allen.
“We don’t know how many suspects are, and we don’t know how many casualties are there,” he said.
Sheriff Noris said that officials believe that two people were killed who were firemen.
Sheriff said, “I am hoping that someone has a clear shot and is capable of neutralizing it, because they are not at this time that they are not showing any evidence of surrender.”
He said that reporters were citizens on the Mount Canfield, including the hikers, so it would “be safe to assume this” others are still there.
Sheriff also said that the brush fire was still burning and they were unable to remove any resource to deal with the bullets.
Sheriff Noris said the call about brush fire came on Sunday at around 13:22 local time (19:22 GMT). He said that at 14:00, firefighters reported firing.
Local fire chief Pat Riley told the TV station KKQ that he was “heartbroken” from the attack.
The Kootenai County Emergency Management Office sent a warning, in which people were asked to escape from the area around the Canfield Mountain Trailhead and Netleton Gulch Road, a region crisked with hiking and biking trails.
