The Idaho firefighters killed and wounded in a bloody mountainside ambush were identified as decades-long veterans of their departments who were “dedicated” to their communities and families,

Two firefighters were killed and a third wounded in northern Idaho, police say, when an armed man ambushed them after intentionally setting a brush fire to lure them to the scene.

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.