Idaho Firefighters Ambushed (06/30)
The John Kobylt Show
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4.3 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/30) - Mark Thompson fills in for John. Jim Ryan comes on the show to talk about the firefighters in Idaho being ambushed as the shooter has been identified. Jury deliberations began in the Diddy trial. Steve Roberts comes on the show to talk about the "Vote-arama" going on in Washington DC. The SCOTUS has effectively ended the federal eviction moratorium related to the COVID19 pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM 640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:10.7 | Mark Thompson here for John Cobalt, who vacations this 4th of July week. |
| 0:15.8 | This is a shocking story out of Idaho, didn't you think? |
| 0:19.9 | Two Idaho firefighters ambushed by this gunman |
| 0:24.9 | who lay in wait for them as he had set this fire to bring them into this scene. Jim Ryan from ABC |
| 0:33.7 | News joins us with the very latest. I guess they've identified this guy, huh, Jim? Well, he have. He's a 20-year-old. He lived most recently in Arizona, but then moved |
| 0:47.0 | up to Idaho near the Idaho Panhandle where this all happened. West Rowley is his name. |
| 0:52.0 | And he's only 20 years old. And now it's a matter of trying |
| 0:55.2 | to figure out why he did this, why police believe he took these lives, set this fire, |
| 1:01.7 | a Canfield Mountain there in the Idaho Panhandle, lured in these firefighters, then opened fire on |
| 1:07.0 | them with a rifle from some distance away, hiding in the trees. Shot three of them killing two. |
| 1:12.5 | The third was critically wounded, but has undergone surgery in Cortillane, Idaho, and apparently |
| 1:19.0 | is going to be okay, Mark. |
| 1:21.0 | Does this guy leave any kind of trail as to, you know, what his thinking was, political philosophy, I mean, all that |
| 1:29.3 | stuff that, you know, usually goes into making up the profile of someone like this? |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah. Well, if he did, police are still trying to track it down and trying to piece it all |
| 1:40.7 | together. But investigators are involved in this. The FBI is helping out with this. We do know that he apparently shot himself. That's the information I just learned |
| 1:49.7 | here a couple of minutes ago from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office out there, that this person, |
| 1:55.5 | you know, he was involved in a gunfight essentially with the law enforcers who were closing in on him yesterday, |
| 2:02.6 | and it appears took his own life with the rifle that he also used to shoot those firefighters. |
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