Firefighters were ambushed by a gunman while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Sunday, according to the local sheriff's office.

Wess Roley, 20, was identified as the Idaho shooter by Bob Norris, the sheriff of Kootenai County, which is in northern Idaho just west of Spokane.

A sheriff says 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