A man armed with a rifle started a wildfire Sunday and then began shooting at first responders in a northern Idaho mountain community, killing two firefighters and wounding a third during a barrage of gunfire over several hours, authorities said.
A man armed with a rifle started a wildfire Sunday and then began shooting at first responders in a northern Idaho mountain community, killing two firefighters and wounding a third during a barrage of gunfire over several hours, authorities said.
The plot thickens. If anybody wants to save a click this is the article from 2001.
HAYDEN, Idaho – Firefighters burned some of the remaining buildings on the former Aryan Nations compound during training exercises this week.
The 20-acre property is owned by the Carr Foundation, which offered the abandoned buildings to Northern Lakes Fire District officials for training, fire inspector Dean Marcus said.
The foundation bought the compound in April from Victoria and Jason Keenan, who won a $6.2 million judgment against the Aryan Nations and its founder, Richard Butler.
Firefighters said they had no political agenda in burning four of the seven buildings during sessions that started Tuesday evening.
“It just gives the folks the opportunity to train how we work,” Chief Jeff Welch said.
A bomb squad dog searched the buildings Thursday to make sure they were safe.
Firefighters plan to torch Butler’s former home and the neo-Nazi sect’s former church July 15.
6/29/01
Exactly on the day. Which makes me nervous about a few weeks from now…
After reading your comment I was wondering why 24 years after the thing and not 20 or 25. “Round” numbers intuitively make more sense to me to create a connection to a previous event. Then it occurred to me, that the second and fourth letters of the alphabet are B and D, as in Dick Butler. Though I doubt Richard would have gone with that nickname. Then again, maybe him being constantly teased/bullied as the dick butler explains him going down a road of hate ;-)