Heroes of Las Vegas: incredible stories of help. VIDEO

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Among the mass executions in Las Vegas, in which dozens of people were killed and injured, there are also stories about heroism. The people who witnessed the bloody events helped each other, and their courage helped avoid even greater sacrifices.

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Amy Makaslin and her roommate Crystal Goddard dove under the table when they heard gunshots. In the end, Makaslin realized that she was being protected by the one who had just been injured.

"The gentleman - I don't know his name, he completely shut me down," McAslin told CNN. “He covered my face and told me he was covering for me.”

Before the shooting, Macaslin and Goddard stood at the stage where country music singer Jason Aldey performed. Then they heard shooting.

Not knowing where to go, the girls dived under the table, while the bullets continued to crumble.

It is not known when the man defending the girls was injured. Makaslin said that there was a lot of blood, but the guy firmly hugged the girls and constantly repeated: "Everything will be fine."

While the guy heroically covered the girls, Makaslin, who was trained as a specialist in emergency medicine, managed to inspect a woman wounded in the neck.

"There was a lot of blood, but she looked fine - the bullet didn't hit an artery," she said.

In the end, the girls were helped to hide in a more secure place, and the wounded were sent to the hospital.

Macaslin’s white shirt was stained with the blood of the man who defended her. She does not know his name.

“I thought about him all day,” McAslin said. “He is truly an amazing person who is just trying to protect everyone.”

“Load them. Go"

Lindsay Padgett and her fiance Mark Jay were at the festival when the shooting began. First they had to sit on the ground, then run with the others to the hangar to hide, and only then return to the parked pickup truck.

As they drove away, a man waved his hand to them.

“Right now we need your pickup truck. We just need to get people to the hospital, okay?” the stranger asked Padgett.

“We (said), ‘Load them. Go". (We) loaded as much as we could,” Jay said.

After people loaded several injured people into the back of the pickup truck, the couple said they were driving along road blocks and curbs until they found an ambulance.

Some victims were referred by ambulance. Several others remained in the pickup truck, and Jay and Pajitt took them to the hospital, following the ambulance.

One passenger, Jay said, was wounded in the neck and pinched the wound with his fingers.

Pajitt decided to return and help the rest of the wounded get to the hospital.

“I just felt like I had to do it,” she told KTNV. “When people need help, you have to take them to the hospital.”

The man, saving his brother, helped the others

Nick Robon, a hockey coach at the University of Nevada, was at a concert with his brother, Anthony, medical assistant Henderson fire brigade. At first, Anthony thought he heard fireworks.

"Then I realized it was gunshots when I heard my brother say, 'I took a bullet.' I turned around and saw him coughing up blood,” Anthony Robin told CNN.

Nick Robon was hit in the chest. Anthony and a friend carried him down the street. Not seeing the ambulance, they stopped at a police car, and the officer gave them a first-aid kit.

"We took a small piece of plastic and placed it on the chest over the wound and secured it with three bandages," Anthony Robon said.

In the end, Nick Robon was taken to an ambulance. Anthony said that he and his friend remained to continue to help firefighters, doctors, doctors, nurses and other passersby carry the wounded down the street or provide first aid.

They were with the wounded while they waited for an ambulance. “It was a team effort from everyone, whether they were medically prepared or not,” Anthony Robon said.

"It was terrible"

A nurse from Orange County, California, told KTNV that she was back in the danger zone to help rescue those who were shot and wounded.

“We came back because I’m a nurse and I just felt like I had to do this,” said the woman, who identified herself as Vanessa.

“There were a lot of people - doctors, police officers, paramedics, nurses, ordinary Americans. We all worked together,” Vanessa said. “It was terrible, but it was absolutely amazing to see all these people come together.”

Good Samaritan

In the midst of shooting, 18-year-old Addison Short tried to escape. But then she felt she was shot.

“I got shot, I couldn’t run,” she said.

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She ducked into the bar for cover: “We all heard the shots, they kept coming,” she said.

An unfamiliar man came to help her, who took off his belt and used it as a harness, and then carried it to a safe place.

“He just picked me up and carried me over his shoulder,” Short said.

The man took her to a taxi, which took her to the hospital and Sunrise Medical Center.

“It was the scariest experience of my life,” Short said.

One saved dozens

Jonathan Smith saved a 30 man during a bloody shooting in the center of Las Vegas before he was wounded in the neck. The bullet is still in the man's clavicle and can stay there for life.

Smith celebrated his brother's 43 anniversary when the shooting began. He helped dozens of strangers out of the danger zone when hundreds of bullets pierced the air. The man continued to lead people under cover until he himself came under fire.

According to the man, he does not feel like a hero. Later it became known that all Smith relatives who were at the festival were not injured.

Stole a truck for good cause

Taylor Winston found the truck with the keys inside, stole it, loaded as many victims as he could into the back seat and took them to the hospital. Then he continued to help people. In total, he saved from 20 to 30 people. A veteran marine returned the keys to the truck owner on Monday.

So far he does not know which of his passengers survived, but he is confident that his decision has changed the situation.

Helped when police asked to stay away

Liam is a promoter by day and taxi driver. Lyft in the evenings - he was driving a client when he noticed police officers redirecting cars in the other direction. A short time later, he learned of a mass shooting at a country music festival. And Leal became one of several drivers who helped people in moments of panic and chaos.

He remembers the "guy with the blood on his neck." He remembers a person who was without his phone and could not contact his friends and family. He recalls a girl who got into his car with a question about where her mother and brother could be, and then found them when they arrived at the place.

So Leal spent the night. He and other drivers were trying to figure out how to best help.

Chris bash driver Lyftsaid NPRthat he tried to gather as many people as he could.

Driver Uber, identified as Brett, was at the casino when people started to run away. He told the TV channel Fox what he “picked up the 15-20 man” before he called Uber and started organizing free trips for people from the scene.

After sunrise, Leal and a friend thought to rest, but they heard that the victims needed blood, so they went to help further.

ABC News posted a video, which captures the footage, as the surviving Americans meet their heroes.

2 October Stephen Paddock shot people gathered at a country music festival from the Mandalay Bay Hotel’s 32 floor, killing an 59 man and injuring more than 500.

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