The fire is still underway this morning in a mountainous area of the County Kootenai, an area appreciated by hikers. For long minutes after the facts, the police continued to exchange shots with the shooters (s), said the Sheriff Robert Norris, the local sheriff.
“Based on the preliminary information, we believe that he was the only shooter,” said Kootenai County sheriff Richard Norris during a press briefing, indicating that there was no more threat to the local population after a body was found.
Earlier, when the operation was still underway, he had declared before the press “at the moment, we are suffering sniper fire”, adding that the shooter has not shown “no sign of the will to surrender”.
“It is a direct hateful attack towards our brave firefighters”
The governor of Idaho, Brad Little, said in a message posted on X that “several heroic firefighters were attacked today when they responded to contain a fire north of Idaho”. “It is a direct hateful attack towards our brave firefighters,” he added.
The deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, said that agency staff was deployed “to provide tactical and operational support”.
The chief firefighters in the area, Pat Riley, said he “broken heart” by the attack, on the local television channel KHQ. He said there was a risk of fire extension since firefighters cannot fight it in these circumstances.
With more firearms in circulation than residents, the United States displayed the highest firearm mortality rate in all developed countries.
The killings are a recurring scourge that successive governments have so far failed to stem, many Americans remaining very attached to their arms.
In the United States, the right to wearing a weapon is protected by the second amendment to the Constitution. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were 189 mass shootings this year in the United States-defined by the organization as incidents where at least four people, other than the shooter, are killed or injured.
