Survivors

Wellington sisters describe escape from chaos.

Two young women from Wellington were in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire. They escaped with their lives.

“It sounded like 100 shots,” Lauren Farina told Sun Sentinel news partner WPEC-CBS12. “It just sounded like so many and it wasn’t stopping.”

Lauren Farina posted cellphone video she took on Facebook showing the massacre, when a gunman opened fire from a hotel room, shooting people at a country-music concert below.

Lauren, 32, and her sister Lulu, 35, recalled hearing the gunfire.

The bullets “were so close,” Lauren Farina said. “Like I just felt like they were all around. We thought, you know, get low — as low as you can.”

Lauren Farina, who was in a wheelchair from a

work-related accident, lost her wheelchair. And as she struggled to walk and run she got a hand from Lulu and a stranger who helped her.

“He came right over and he took my other arm and he put it around his shoulder,” Lauren Farina said. “So now I have him on one shoulder, and my sister on the other, and the two of them just basically got me out of there.”

They escaped the shooting scene and got into a pickup truck that was taking bleeding and wounded victims to the hospital.

“We really truly believe that we were spared. We were shielded from this and we really don’t even know how or why we didn’t get hit,” she said.

Their father, Carlos Farina, knows how lucky his daughters were that they were not wounded or killed.

“I felt the bullets coming so close to them — you can hear it in the video that they were just hitting around them. It’s a miracle,” he said.

When the two women got to the hospital in Las Vegas, there were so many gunshot victims there, the medical staff seemed overwhelmed.

Lauren Farina said she was in awe of her sister, who helped out doctors and nurses, applying tourniquets and assisting victims, because so many people needed help.

“I just felt like they (bullets) were all around. We thought, you know, get low — as low as you can.” Lauren Farina