Las Vegas Hospitals Call For Backup To Handle Hundreds Of Shooting Victims
To manage the volume of gunshot victims from a mass shooting Sunday night that occurred along the Las Vegas Strip, local hospitals used ambulance bays and hallways as triage locations.
Hospitals across the Las Vegas area were inundated Sunday evening when hundreds of people injured in the mass shooting at a country music festival on the Strip arrived at their doors by ambulances and private car.
And hundreds of doctors, nurses, and support personnel were called into work to help handle the patients that were lined up in ambulance bays and hallways, officials say.
Following the shooting, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at least on thousands of people at a crowded outdoor concert.
