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Police says a 20 -year -old man launched an alleged snipers attack on firefighters in Idahu, killing two people and wounded a third person, who was hoping that a firefighter would become himself.

Two firefighters were killed and a third wounded after they were shot, and upon their arrival at a fire in Mount Canvied, north of Cor Delni, on Sunday evening, officials say.

The authorities say that the role intentionally set fire to attract the first respondents to the area. They say he wants a firefighter to be himself, but no motive for the attack was found.

After an hour -long confrontation, the SWAT team discovered a dead man – determined as a role – near the place where the attack took place.

His mother said in the position of social media, my role moved from Arizona to Idaho in 2023 to work for his father’s trees. Officials say that at some point, he opened the fire from a tree that he went up.

In a joint update in October 2024, his mother wrote that he “lives great in Idahu.”

Police believes that the role used a flint that was found near his body to deliberately start the fire.

“This was a complete ambush. Firefighters had no chance,” Sharif Bob Norris told a news conference.

A firefighter who was killed in the city’s fire extinguishing service worked, while another worked in Kutnie County to extinguish the fire and rescue.

He said that the third was “fighting for his life, but he is in a stable condition.”

The governor of the state of Idaho ordered the informing of the flags on half of the employees on Monday to honor the firefighters who were killed.

Norris said that the first report on a fire in the mountain community is around 13:21 Pacific time (21:21 GMT), which recited 40 minutes after the reports that were fire on firefighters.

Norris said that the so -called Nettleton Gulch had grown to 26 acres after it was reported for the first time and continued to combustion on Monday. There are no threatened structures, and officials hope to extinguish the fire on Monday night.

More than 300 law enforcement officers responded from the city, the boycott, state and federal authorities, including a helicopter with snipers on board.

Norris said that the authorities believed that the suspect used a high -power fire rifle to quickly shoot in the first two respondents, with non -sure officers at the beginning of the number of perpetrators concerned.

A rifle was recovered, and several bullets or fragments may be found from a rifle. Officials say more weapons may be hidden on the mountain.

Hours after the shooting of hours, the suspect was found by tracking his mobile phone on the famous long -distance walking path, which officials said was used by hundreds on Sunday afternoon.

“He appears to have shot himself,” Norris told a news conference on Monday.

Norris added that the suspect had no criminal history, and he had five previous “very simple” reactions with the police since it moved to the state of Idahu in 2024. He said that in one case, he was announced that he was transgressing a restaurant by the police.

Sharif said that there was no “statement.” He added that he appeared to have recently deleted many social media publications, and that he was “transient”, and he lived in a car close to fire.

In order to prevent the suspect from fleeing, officials disabled that car and “pushed it from the mountain.” They have not yet been able to reach the car for a more comprehensive search.

Several firefighting vehicles have also seen that their frames are flat to prevent the suspect from fleeing.

Norris excluded that the suspect had a “any bond for Islamic jihad”, who said he falsely suggested social media.

Before the attack began, the suspect had an interaction with firefighters who responded to the Bush fire. He refused to reveal more details about the meeting, although it appears to be associated with the suspect’s car.

He said grandfather NBC News On Monday, the suspect dreamed of becoming a firefighter, and “in fact respects the enforcement of the law.”

“He loved firefighters,” said Del Dub.

“It was not logical that he was shooting at firefighters. Perhaps he was rejected or something like that.”

“He was in contact with a job with an extinguishing department,” he added, and “he wanted to be part of a team he was suffering from.”