WEBSTER, N.Y. — Four volunteer firefighters responding to a pre-dawn house fire were shot Monday morning, two fatally, leading to a shootout between a suspect and police in suburban Rochester, N.Y., police said.

“One or more shooters” fired at the firefighters when they arrived shortly after 5:30 a.m. at the blaze near the Lake Ontario shore, just east of Rochester, Town of Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

The first Webster police officer who arrived exchanged gunfire with a shooter, Monroe County Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn said.

Police would not give details on the whereabouts of a suspect, with O’Flynn saying only there was no active shooter at the scene later in the morning.

The two wounded firefighters were in critical condition at a Rochester hospital, O’Flynn said.

The West Webster Fire District early Monday received a report of a car and house on fire on Lake Road, on a narrow peninsula where Irondequoit Bay meets Lake Ontario, O’Flynn said.

The fire started in one home and spread to two others and a car, officials said.