Australian firefighters shot at by men with scoped rifles in hours-long ordeal in US

By Kylar Loussikian
Updated October 18 2018 - 5:02pm, first published September 11 2018 - 4:00pm
NSW firefighters Daniel Barwick, left and Phillip Eberle, right. The pair were shot at while in the US fighting fires in remote Washington state.
NSW firefighters Daniel Barwick, left and Phillip Eberle, right. The pair were shot at while in the US fighting fires in remote Washington state.

Two men set up a rifle with a telescopic lens before firing on a Batemans Bay firefighter, his colleague and two US Forest Service personnel patrolling in remote Washington state near the White Pass ski area, according to staggering new details contained in a debrief note prepared about the incident.

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