Firefighter meets US sheriff he saved after Las Vegas shooting
A British firefighter has been reunited with a US police officer he helped save during a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017.He gave sheriff Andrew Dahring first aid after seeing him covered in blood. He had been shot twice.Speaking after the meeting, arranged by, he said:"I've been waiting since October to come out and it is kind of surreal I am here.
"I've missed that connection and just to be with him, to fill in missing pieces for a bit of closure."Paddock had set up a firing point in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, which overlooked the festival, before opening fire on 1 October 2017. Witnesses described hundreds of shots being fired at the 22,000 revellers attending the festival, before the 64-year-old shot himself dead.Mr Dahring said he and his wife were running away from the line of fire and had just been refused care by a passing ambulance when they encountered Mr Dumbleton.
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