BREAKING: Multiple firefighters shot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, while responding to a brush fire

Who would shoot firefighters? That’s like shooting Fido.

Coeur d'Alene, home to many Aryan Nations White Supremacist groups.

They were probably Doomsday Prepper nuts who didn't "want no strangers trespassin' on mah proprtee!"

Dumb fucking paranoid lunatic cunts.

Were they IdaHOs?

CdA

r3, Nope, YOU da HO!

The fire was believed to have been intentionally set to lure in first responders and trap them.

The sheriff was just speaking to the press and said his crew was taking sniper fire as he spoke. They don’t know how many snipers.

Isn’t that area 100% MAGA?

Two firefighters dead.

I rode my motorcycle through there...but I didn't stop.

I guess I did the right thing, hunh?

MAGA firefighters shot and killed by MAGA voters?

I'm not sure what to feel?

😟

Listened to some of the replay of the scanner. Horrific, including audio of one of the firefighters that had been shot begging for medical assistance. Feel so bad for that man and the other firefighters. They did nothing to deserve this. Firefighters are literally the good guys.

That area is full of aggressive nutjobs and has been for as long as I've been alive. (Millennial here.) I remember on a road trip when I was a boy we stopped in southern Idaho at a visitor's center and the nice lady there asked us where we were headed because she wanted to make sure we had no plans of going into the northern part of the state.

Sorry but anytime something happens now and the media says Pam Bondi or Dan Bongino or Kristi Noem have issued statements, I immediately roll my eyes because I cannot take any of those clowns seriously.

Disgusting that people think murdering firefighters trying to put out a fire is a good idea.

I hope the perps are caught, tried, and killed in jail.

Can't they use drones to figure out where the sniper(s) is. Do they know if it's more than one?

11 shot apparently.

Dan Bongino apparently tweeted that the FBI is on the scene. Hopefully that's true.

I went thru Coeur d'Alene when I was a teenage runaway in the mid 70s. I actually got a job with and slept at the St Vincent D'Paul thrift store there. And had a lovely affair with a 20 year named Craig . But I digress. Back then it was a very beautiful area and every single person my queeny teen ass met was nothing but kind . It saddens me to see what its become since then . All those freaks around there needed was permission and they got it from the White House. This is just the start .

Coeur d’Alene is where DL icon and gay porn legend Justin Owen lives. I hope he's OK.

Trump will be torn between wanting to support the Proud Boys and Our First Responders- at the same time.

20 bucks says they have terrible hair. And that they'e Trump supporters.

Hurting first responders is reprehensible.

Have the right-wing media and influencers begun insisting that the shooter(s) is a registered Democrat or an illegal immigrant? If not, you know they will be very soon. They'll start circulating photos of random people, claiming that it's the shooter and he was a big supporter of Biden/Harris.

The Sheriff seems to have no fucking clue what's going on.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Couer d’Alene through the years as I have a lot of family in Montana and have passed through that region countless times while traveling from the west coast. Northern Idaho does famously have a skinhead population and while most of the state is conservative, Couer d’Alene proper is not necessarily representative of that—you have to go further north to the Sandpoint region which is where there is a legitimate hub or neo-Nazis. Couer d’Alene is a wealthy resort town and while it’s definitely on the conservative side, it is not a backwater shithole like some might imagine. There is a lot of money there.

Suspect found dead!!

I suspect fowl play

MAGA make gun go BOOM!

Almost got run off the road there during my COVID Cross Country trek. My CA plates made me a target for Trumptards I thought at the time. It looks like the Doomsday Trumptards are attacking everyday Trumptards now.

Supposedly there was a Nazi HQ there a couple of years ago that got shut down and turned over to the Fire Department for fire practice and today marks the anniversary of when the buildings were burned down, so yeah it’s Nazis

What fucking pisses me off is that their guy won and his speed running Hitlers playbook and these still guys aren't content and home jacking themselves into a sock. Wait til they turn pornhub off. It will be nothing but rapes and mass shootings

There's no news about any suspects found dead or alive so don't joke about it. This is serious. What kind of shit for brains animal would kill a fireman. These are vile, ugly monsters.

R33, SWAT found a man dead with a firearm lying near his body up on the mountain per ABC News.

AP is reporting this too.

Was his name Randy?

The fact this pyscho intentionally set a wildfire and then shot firefighters absolutely evil! My guess is it will be either a neonazi or internet poisoned death cultist like the Palm Springs bomber.

There hasn't been a Nazi HQ there for 25 years, r31. I would never live in Idaho but I think it's stupid when people talk about it like it's some monolithic SS training camp. There are decent people in Coeur d'Alene and Boise.

[quote] people talk about it like it's some monolithic SS training camp.

That's exactly what Coeur D'Alene is. A training camp for white nationalist, white supremacist Nazi skinheads.

Stop trying to downplay it.

[quote] There are decent people in Coeur d'Alene and Boise.

No, there really aren't.

The entire state of Idaho is full of evil people.

That state is lost to any decent people.

R39 you seem dumb as fuck

It's a real pity that some of the most beautiful states in the US are full of far right-wing kooks, Nazis, Mormon cultists, militia gun nuts, doomsday preppers, etc.

This is the government's fault.

Both the Federal Government and the government of the State of Idaho have done NOTHING about about these white christian nationalist, doomsday prepper, anti-government NUTJOBS since the days of Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho, over 33 years ago.

They just let the problem fester, and fester, and fester, instead of rooting these assholes out of Northern Idaho and getting rid of the entire lot of them.

Now Idaho is reaping what it has sowed.

Until the Feds and the State of Idaho GET RID of these people once and for all, this will continue to be a problem, and more people will be lost.

Bill Clinton and Janet Reno tried to enforce the law at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, but the nutjobs made them out to be the bad guys.

Either DO SOMETHING about them, or don't cry about it.

[quote] Randy Weaver, a former Iowa factory worker and U.S. Army soldier, moved with his wife and four children to northern Idaho during the 1980s so they could "home-school his children and escape what he and his wife Vicki saw as a corrupted world." In 1978, Vicki, the religious leader of the family, began to have recurrent dreams of living on a mountaintop and believed that the apocalypse was imminent. After the birth of their son, Samuel, the Weavers began selling their belongings and visited the Amish to learn how to live without electricity. They bought twenty acres of land on Ruby Ridge in 1983 and began building a cabin;  the property was in Boundary County on a hillside on Ruby Creek opposite Caribou Ridge, northwest of nearby Naples.

[quote] In 1984, Randy Weaver and his neighbor Terry Kinnison had a dispute over a $3,000 land deal. Kinnison lost the ensuing lawsuit and was ordered to pay Weaver an additional $2,100 in court costs and damages. Kinnison wrote letters to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secret Service, and the county sheriff in which he alleged that Weaver had threatened to kill Pope John Paul II, President Ronald Reagan, and Idaho Governor John V. Evans.

[quote] In January 1985, the FBI and the Secret Service launched an investigation into allegations that Weaver had made threats against Reagan and other government and law enforcement officials.  On February 12, Weaver and his wife were interviewed by two FBI agents, two Secret Service agents, and the Boundary County sheriff and his chief investigator.  The Secret Service had been told that Weaver was a member of Aryan Nations (an antisemitic, neo-Nazi, white supremacist terrorist organization) and that he had a large weapons cache at his residence. Weaver denied these allegations, and the government filed no charges.  On three or four occasions, the Weavers had attended Aryan Nations meetings at Hayden Lake, where there was a compound for government resisters and white supremacists/separatists.

[quote] The investigation noted that Weaver associated with Frank Kumnick, who was known to associate with members of Aryan Nations. Weaver told the investigators that neither he nor Kumnick was a member of Aryan Nations but he stated that Kumnick was "associated with The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord." On February 28, Randy and Vicki Weaver filed an affidavit with the county courthouse alleging that their personal enemies were plotting to provoke the FBI into attacking and killing the Weaver family.  On May 6, the Weavers sent President Reagan a letter claiming that their enemies may have sent Reagan a threatening letter under a forged signature. In 1992, the prosecutor cited the 1985 letter as an overt act of the Weaver family conspiracy against the federal government.

I'm sure Dan Bongino will get to the bottom of it. He's just so busy with that asshole in Minnesota

Christ-on-a-Craker...the USA really IS batshit crazy.

Idaho is one of the worst states in the nation. Racist backwards trash.

Poor firemen. They not only have one of the most uncomfortable and dangerous jobs, they are first responders and EMTs. Give them guns now and they’ll do it all. They better be at the top in salaried public servants.

[quote] I'm sure Dan Bongino will get to the bottom of it. He's just so busy with that asshole in Minnesota

That's TWO MAGA assassins in just one month.

One politician killer in Minnesota, and one First Responder(s) killer in Idaho.

And they're just getting started.

All thanks to Donald J. Trump.

I’m thinking punk kids with a grudge doing it.

R48, you're also a MAGAt, so it makes sense that you would blame "the punk kids" instead of the adult scum that live in this region.

They may be punks, but they are still Nazis.

Idaho is fucked up. One of my dearest friends is from just outside Boise. All three children went out of state for college. Two, thank their lucky stars they did. They go back only to see Mom and Dad, who know they are surrounded by kooks, but won’t move out because it’s “home.”

The oldest child got an advanced degree and then permanently returned. He’s now a prepper, a rascist and a Nazi.

R11 you can go ahead and feel great that those fire fighters are now dead. You don’t know who they voted for but they could have voted for Trump. That maybe is enough reason to feel joy for you,

You are the future of the Democratic Party and an example of why the Dems are as popular as they are today and why they apthey did so well in the last election,

Is Dan Vongina going to weep copious tears that his family weekend was ruined by this? And how much he and his family are suffering because of it?

Which costume will ICE Barbie put on for this?

There are rumors on social media that the gunman could have been Travis Decker, the fugitive wanted for murdering his 3 daughters. Not confirmed, so who knows. There's no shortage of nutcases in that region.

[quote] MAGA firefighters shot and killed by MAGA voters? I'm not sure what to feel?

You’re a sociopath.

[quote] Travis Decker

Decker? I hardly know her.

r31 here -- I was off by the timeline, it wasn't a couple of years ago, it was 24 years ago, but it's still weird that this fire and shooting happened on the anniversary -- more on it here

[quote] Which costume will ICE Barbie put on for this?

Since it's Northern Idaho, I would assume this one....

💯 R42. The government treats these nutjobs with kid gloves. Also the Obama crowd allowed those loonies in Oregon to take over federal buildings. They should have blown them away like in Waco, but by that time they had been so cowed by the right wing mouthpieces.

I recall Rush Limpballs hollering about Janet Napolitano's report saying that right wing neo-Nazis were the greatest terrorist threat. After all of the Republican screeching, she backed off on that.

It's no wonder Democrats are perceived as pussies.

R21 He can always dust off his good people on both sides line.

It's KKKristi R58.

R59 I can't argue with your assertions. Appeasement always seems to be the Democrats MO. All we have to do is look at how Biden/Garland handled Trump and the insurrectionists in Congress. There were 147 members who refused to acknowledge the election. The hearings proved that it wasn't simply a riot, it was planned and deliberate and part of a larger conspiracy to stop the government and overthrow the election. And now, as a result we have extremists RUNNING our government and Trump as POTUS.

Yup R62, and we had sitting members of Congress giving those people tours of the Capitol in the days before.

Democrats need to stop acting like these people are the Republicans of the 1980s (Looking at you Schumer and Hakeem).

The theory that a conservative shot at firefighters for political reasons doesn't make sense to me. In N Idaho the cops and firefighters are just as conservative. There's a lot of adoration for firefighters, and even cops. Government agents are where they have their vendettas.

Wess Roley named as the dead suspect. Even Daily Fail can't find a photo of him. Probably some weird Ted Kaczynski-like hermit

The shooter went to a lot of trouble, actually setting a fire and having them come out to respond.... talk about crazy...

Apparently I’m right and you’re wrong R49. I am no fucking MAGAt either.

Nothing anybody has said is verboten. This is DL for pity’s sake. If we can’t snark when good guys get killed here where can we? R11 is not wrong. And I was right at R48 after all.

Of course.

Wow, not what I expected. I was sure it would be a middle aged, Duck Dynasty looking dude. He was only 20.

And has stupid hair.

"This is my pride flag"

[quote] Isn't Coeur d'Alene filled with lunatics?

Patty Duke lived there. You decide.

R72, not no more it ain't.

-- his dead killer son

Posing with an assault weapon as a child

r72 r75

Please, for the love of god, learn how to post X links

It looks trans.

No, he doesn’t r77. Stop perpetuating the crap that is being posted on Twitter.

Looks like Lauren Boebert's Xmas card R75. I wonder how many of her kids will become domestic terrorists?

So Dad was the Duck Dynasty-looking one.

The photos of the father at R76 look significantly younger than the one pictured at R69. I'm guessing one of them is the stepfather?

Cavalry scout in the Army? Is he a 125 years old?

Lon Horiuchi was an American hero.

The killer posted an Instagram story (presumably just before the incident?) with the song "Hunter" by Björk attached.

So apparently he was homeless and had an interaction with the firefighters prior to this.

His father said he had no relationship with his son - but his mom posted that his son moved from Arizona to Idaho to be part of his dad's tree-trimming business.

He was living out of his car it seems. I don't know what the heck to believe - but the dad is a nut for sure.

A crazy MAGA bastard raised a crazy son. Cruelty is the point.