SPANGLE - Two Washington state sheriff's deputies were fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call near Spangle, according to a Fox News report. The report said the deputies were shot as they tried to rescue people who may have been held hostage.

Fox News summarized the incident in a single report, and the summary available for this story is brief. It does not identify the deputies by name, state how many people were involved, or describe who fired the shots.

The headline of the Fox News report also refers to a woman being shot. The summary does not say whether she was among the people the deputies were trying to reach, when her shooting occurred relative to the deputies' deaths, or whether she survived. These points remain unclear from the material available here.

The material for this story includes no statement from the sheriff's office, the state, or any other official, and no account from a second news organization. Fox News is the only source used in this report. Details beyond those in the Fox News summary are not reported here.

The domestic violence call is described only in those terms. The summary does not say who made the call, what the deputies found when they arrived, or whether anyone was taken into custody.

Sources: Fox News: Two Washington deputies killed trying to rescue possible hostages after woman shot.