(CNN) — When state troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins were tasked Thursday morning with checking on a call of shots fired at a home in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, they had no idea about the danger they were driving toward.

By the end of the day, both would be in a hospital recovering from gunshot wounds and praised as heroes while investigators recounted the details of an ambush and standoff that included the commandeering of a semi-truck, the shooting down of a drone and the fear of a propane tank being turned into a bomb.

When the troopers arrived at the scene on State Route 171 in Thompson Township, they were immediately attacked by a gunman with several rounds of rifle fire from a good distance, Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris said, declining to sa

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