‘So much blood’: Medics tell what they saw and did after Uvalde massacre

CNN — Chilling details of the chaotic and bloody aftermath of the Uvalde school massacre show how emergency medics desperately treated multiple victims wherever they could and with whatever equipment they had, according to never-before-heard interviews. Then while I was treating her, there was two more 10-year-old boys brought to me and so I put one on the bench and one in the captain’s seat.” Shoemake’s colleagues including Kathlene Torres came to help and got the little girl onto a stretcher and into another ambulance, working to save her life as they first thought a helicopter would take her and then getting her to the hospital themselves, they said. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News The shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, crashed his truck in a ditch near the school, DPS Regional Director Victor Escalon said during a news conference. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Photos show chaotic scene as Uvalde students escape Prev Next When she went closer to the school to help the other EMTs, she saw the first victim brought out, a boy who was dead, she said. “I grabbed my phone, and I called my husband and my husband’s like, ‘I see him, I see him, he’s getting onto the bus, he’s OK.’ And I said, ‘OK, but I’ve got to stay here with these students.’ And I hung up and I continued to do my job.” Vela told DPS she remembered a little more of the day after she knew her son was safe, but it was still a blur as she worked with Shoemake and the others, writing a child’s vitals on their arms and getting them on their way – load and go, load and go.