2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting

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On June 29, 2025, an intentionally set brush fire on the west slope of Canfield Mountain in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States, was used to ambush first responders. Twenty-year-old Wess Val Roley fired 12-gauge shotgun slugs at the first-arriving crews, killing Battalion Chiefs Frank Harwood and John Morrison and critically wounding Engineer David Tysdal; Roley died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a five-hour manhunt that drew more than 300 local, state and federal officers. The deliberately lit Nettleton Gulch Fire burned approximately 23 acres (9.3 ha) of steep, timbered terrain. Crews reached 75 percent containment by July 2 and declared the wildfire 100 percent contained on July 4, 2025. Investigators have not established a motive, calling the event "a total ambush" on unarmed firefighters; the incident has renewed national attention on rising assaults against U.S. fire and EMS personnel.

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