A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle,

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.

The man suspected of ambushing the firefighters who responded to a blaze he set on Canfield Mountain, fatally shooting two and seriously wounding a third, did so after firefighters asked him to move his vehicle,