Overview

• Authorities lifted shelter-in-place advisories for Kootenai County residents after concluding the immediate threat had been neutralized.
• An elite law enforcement unit recovered a deceased man with a firearm on Canfield Mountain late Sunday, believed to be the shooter.
• Two firefighters were killed and additional casualties remain unknown when sniper fire targeted crews combating a brush fire.
• Sheriff Robert Norris directed officers to neutralize the sniper threat as repeated shots came from dense vegetation.
• FBI tactical teams joined the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office to neutralize the threat and enable fire crews to resume containment efforts.