Vegas for this year’s festival.

By the time Jason Aldean took the stage just before 10 p.m., her group had scattered. Her sister’s 16-year-old daughter was near the front with her friend. Another group was near the back. And she took a couple friends with her for a restroom break just as shots started to ring out.

As video footage has shown, she said no one really reacted to the first or second shot. Flores thought it was fireworks or a speaker malfunction. But her sister and two of her friends are officers with the Los Angeles Police Department, and they quickly realized they were hearing gunfire.

Flores’ friends each took one of her arms, and they started to run.

It wasn’t until they made it into the refrigerator inside Hooter’s Casinoseek out training.

UC Irvine Medical Center offers its “Stop the Bleed” course for $30 on the third Saturday of each month. The next open session is in February, with registration available at UCIrvineHealth.org/events.

Brooke Edwards Staggs is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering the politics, business, health and culture of cannabis. Journalism has led Staggs to a manhunt in Las Vegas, a zero gravity flight over Queens and a fishing village in Ghana. The Big Bear native is addicted to education. She earned her bachelors degree in English from California Baptist University, then got her master's in education as she taught high school English in the Inland Empire. After four years in the classroom, she left in 2006 to be a student again herself, earning a