Two firefighters were killed and residents were ordered to shelter in place, but the order was lifted after police found a dead man in the woods.

Two firefighters died and one was fighting for his life after a "total ambush" in Coeur d'Alene, authorities said.

The man who shot dead two firefighters and wounded a third after setting a blaze near a popular mountainside trail in Idaho was described by authorities on Monday as a young transient whose motives remained a mystery a day after the attack.