The ambush on Sunday left two people dead and another injured, with gunfire erupting as firefighters responded to a brush fire on the mountain. Law enforcement officials believe Roley started the brush fire on Canfield Mountain and began shooting at first responders when they came to put the fire out.

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A man shot firefighters battling a blaze in northern Idaho after they asked him to move his vehicle, killing two of them and wounding a third, a sheriff said Monday.

As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.