The two people who died in the Cour d’Alene shooting are both firefighters, said Edward Kelly, the president of the International Association of Firefighters.
A third firefighter is in surgery, Kelly said. “Two of our brothers were killed by a sniper, and a third brother remains in surgery,” he wrote on X.
The condition of the third firefighter and the nature of his injuries were not immediately clear.
The union president said the firefighters were “ambushed in a heinous act of violence.”
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