OT Major emergency in Coeur d'Alene Sunday afternoon.

ORIGINAL - 3 p.m. June 29

Emergency personnel and law enforcement are responding to a major emergency in Coeur d'Alene Sunday afternoon.

We're working to confirm what is being broadcast on the scanner, which is that fire crews responding to a wildfire were ambushed and shot.

While we don't typically report scanner information, reporters in the area are seeing wildfire smoke in the area of E. Nettleton Gulch Road. We're also seeing emergency crews blocking roads in the area. Emergency responders are staging at Kootenai Health and at least one medical helicopter has responded to the area.

4 News Now journalists have also seen law enforcement respond from the Spokane area, heading to the scene.

This is a rapidly developing story and will be updated as we get more information.

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UPDATE at 4:00 p.m. June 29 - ABC News has confirmed with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office that firefighters responding to a brush fire were ambushed by a gunman.


ABC attributes the information to Kootenai County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Howard

UPDATE at 3:27 p.m. June 29 - Kootenai County Emergency Management issued an emergency shelter in place for people in the area of Canfield Mountain Trailhead and Nettleton Gulch Road on Sunday afternoon.

4 News Now is working to confirm what is being broadcast on the scanner, which is that fire crews responding to a wildfire were ambushed and shot.

This is a rapidly developing story and will be updated as we get more information.

 

UDPATE at 4:08 p.m. June 29 - Kootenai County Emergency Management expanded the shelter in place to everything south of Hayden Lake Road and east of 15th Street in Coeur d'Alene.

The original shelter in place was set for the area of Canfield Mountain Trailhead and Nettleton Gulch Road.

ABC News has confirmed with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office that firefighters responding to a brush fire were ambushed by a gunman.

Multicare said Spokane hospitals are standing by to take patients if needed.

 

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- UPDATE at 5:00 pm on June 29 - The Kootenai County Sheriff says he doesn't know how many gunmen are shooting at law enforcement on Canfield Mountain in Coeur d'Alene.

Sheriff Bob Norris said in a news conference Sunday afternoon that officers are "actively taking sniper fire."

"We don't know if there's one, two, three or four," Sheriff Norris said.


The sheriff confirmed two people are dead, most likely firefighters. He said there are more people on the mountain they haven't been able to reach, which could include people who live in the area or people who were hiking there this afternoon.

Sheriff Norris said the call about the brush fire came in around 1:22 Sunday afternoon. At 2 pm, firefighters reported there were shots fired.

Norris said the gunman or gunmen show "no sign of wanting to surrender" and that he's hoping law enforcement can get a clean shot to "neutralize" the shooter or shooters.

He said no law enforcement officers have been shot.

The sheriff said he expects to update the situation later Sunday evening, but wasn't sure what time.

 

This will end well. (The Sheriff has made no such call, but there will be idiots that believe this tweet.)