Active shooting first responders to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

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2 dead in shooting while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/idaho-c...s-shooting

[RonT (aka Ombligo)]

The suspected shooter has been found dead. No idea of a reason (other than Northern Idaho)

[RAMd®d]

(other than Northern Idaho)

Care to explain why that's a 'reason'?

[ThePosterFormallyKnownasbfd]

(other than Northern Idaho)

Care to explain why that's a 'reason'?

Perhaps the political bent of many in that part of the country is skewed far right, but ambushing firefighters and starting forest fires doesn't seem like an answer to many of their issues with how things are run in the rest of the country.

Seems more likely that the arsonist/murderer had some axe to grind with the FD. It's beyond belief that someone would lure firefighters - of all the possible targets for someone with an axe to grind - into an ambush unless they had something against that system. Maybe the murderer wasn't given a job as a seasonal or something, maybe some firefighter pizzed him off once upon a time. Maybe he was just crazy and wanted to "do something big". 

Not sure I'd paint the entire area with the crazy brush, though they do like their freedums left alone. (as do we all)

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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The suspect who police believe killed two firefighters Sunday after starting a brush fire in Idaho wanted to pursue a career as a firefighter himself, his grandfather told CNN.