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March 28, 2024

Union: 12 off-duty firefighters shot at concert

Mass Shooting at Las Vegas Music Festival

AP Photo/John Locher

Police officers and medical personnel are shown at the scene of a shooting near Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Hundreds of victims were transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival there.

Firefighters Give Accounts of Shooting

Clark County firefighter Jesse Gomez, center, supports Henderson firefighter Anthony Robone during a news conference at the International Association of Firefighters Union Hall, Local 1285, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. Robone's older brother Nick, an assistant hockey coach at UNLV, was hit by gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd. Launch slideshow »

Union officials say 12 off-duty firefighters were shot while attending a country music festival in Las Vegas, including two who were wounded while administering CPR to gunshot victims.

Angelo Aragon, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Nevada, said Tuesday that all the firefighters survived their wounds.

Aragon said dozens of area firefighters were attending the event and about 150 from about 20 stations responded to help after the massacre.

Several off-duty firefighters described sending loved ones away from the scene as they set up triage stations and taught concertgoers to help provide emergency care such using belts as tourniquets.

Anthony Robone of the Henderson fire department said he did first aid on his older brother Nicholas who was shot in the upper chest. The brother is in stable condition.