Dawn-Marie Gray and Kevin Gray.KGW.com
When Dawn-Marie Gray and her husband, Kevin, won tickets to the Route 91 Harvest festival through a Portland radio station, they could never have known it would be one of the most harrowing events of their lives. The couple took shelter in a VIP area during the shooting.
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Dawn-Marie, who worked as a paramedic急救医士for about seven years, knew that local paramedics would not be admitted entry until the area was deemed safe. She and her husband turned to the wounded, providing CPR, making tourniquets止血带, and checking for pulses on lifeless bodies. The couple worked together to load victims into cars en route to the hospital.
do with being a hero,said. a human being.
Carly Krygier became a human shield to protect her four-year-old daughter.
Carly Krygier and daughter, Blayke.Courtesy of Carly Krygier
Carly Krygier heard the words sprang into action.
told CNN. that were just behind us and I tried to tuck her in close to the end so
she was as protected as possible.Blayke.
They both took refuge in the nearby Tropicana hotel.
daughter, my friends, and I,Krygier wrote in a Facebook post in the early hours of Monday morning.
Rob Ledbetter, who served as a sniper狙击手in the Iraq War, tended to the wounded.
Concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, take cover after the shooting began.Getty/David Becker
Like many concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival, Ledbetter heard the sound of popping and figured it was fireworks. When he saw people drop to the ground, his instincts kicked in (take effect).
echo回声, it sounded like it was coming from everywhere and you didn\'t know which way to run,ABC News.
Once he led his brother, who was shot and injured, and his wife to safety in a VIP area of the concert, Ledbetter turned his attention to the wounded. He told ABC News he compressed someone\'s shoulder injury, wrapped a leg, and put a makeshift tourniquet on a teenage girl.
some random guy, I said, \'I need your shirt,\'Ledbetter recalled, who is now a mortgage broker and a resident of Las Vegas. gave me the flannel off his back.
Lindsay Lee Padgett turned her truck into a makeshift ambulance.
Lindsay Lee Padgett and Mike Jay.Courtesy of Lindsay Lee Padgett Lindsay Lee Padgett was sitting in the passenger seat of her truck, watching people care for the injured, when a man approached her window. now, we need you truck,he said. just need to get people over to the hospital, OK?
Padgett and her fiance, Mike Jay, piled five wounded victims and five others who were caring for the injured into the back of the truck. One man who was shot in the back died.
were just trying to get people to the hospital. We got halfway there, and as we were getting on the freeway, we saw an ambulance stopped, so we went over and they started taking the most critical people and putting them in the ambulance,ABC News.
The couple drove the other victims and their companions to the hospital. A video of the incident which Padgett shared to Facebook has over 2.7 million views.
A teenager shot in the leg said a stranger whisked her to safety.
Addison Short.CNN
Addison Short and a friend tried to run for cover when they heard the sounds of gunfire. But Short\'s knee buckled, and she realized she had been shot. Blood poured from her leg.
recalled crying out during an interview with CNN.
A good Samaritan, who she did not know, wrapped her leg in a tourniquet and threw her over his shoulder. The man carried Short to a taxi driving nearby, and she was treated at a hospital.
Tom McIntosh, who was shot in the leg, reunited with his hero a few days after the shooting.
Tom McIntosh, right, and James Lawson.TODAY
Tom McIntosh said he wouldn\'t have made it out of the festival alive if it weren\'t for a stranger who stopped to care for him. McIntosh lay bleeding from the leg in the bed of a pick-up truck. James Lawson, who serves in the US Army Reserve, was fleeing the active-shooter scene when he passed by a truck and noticed that a tourniquet around McIntosh\'s leg was tied incorrectly.
was the completely wrong spot,\'\' Lawson told TODAY. walked up there and he was actively bleeding, so I adjusted the belt, got it up where it should be, tightened it down.
Lawson stayed with McIntosh, consoling him, until a different truck ferried them both to the hospital. A bullet is still lodged in McIntosh\'s leg, but he is expected to make a full recovery.
was dozens and dozens of other concertgoers doing the same thing,\'\' Lawson said of his heroic act. couldn\'t leave anybody behind, they were running back towards the fire to help more people. There\'s got to be hundreds of stories like this one.
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