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.

Smoke continued to fill the air at Canfield Mountain after a shooter killed firefighters responding to a wildfire in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. The town held a procession in honor of the two crew members who died.

As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.

Two Idaho firefighters were killed and another was critically injured in a shooting while responding to a fire near Coeur d'Alene in the state's north on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The big picture: Officials have now identified both the veteran firefighters who were shot and the suspect,