2 stories. One goes to Vegas for the concert ,returns home to the fires in Ca. The other has awaken from coma and will need more surgery,.Didn't realize so many are still in the hospital and sounds like they will be there for some time to come. I just hope reach one can walk out of the hospital with a complete pay off of the bills. and not have to worry about how to pay this off.; Sure they can all sue but that doesn't give them money in hand quickly . They need more benefit concerts. So many are going on for the hurricanes ,the fires and the Vegas shooting. is there enough money to go clear around? One can only give so much.
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Woman Survives Las Vegas Shooting Only to Lose Her Home in Deadly California Fires a Week Later
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Woman Survives Las Vegas Shooting Only to Lose Her Home in Deadly California Fires a Week Later
Michella Flores is a true survivor.
The 51-year-old California resident survived two tragedies in just over one week — first the horrific shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 that left 58 country music fans dead and injured 527 others, and then the California wildfires that have taken the lives of at least 31 so far a week later at on Oct. 8.
"Last Sunday, I was running from bullets," Flores told Fox-KTVU. "This Sunday, I was running from fire."
Fighting fire, is more like it. Flores —who has been a firefighter, a paramedic and she now works part-time as a flight attendant and as a customer service representative at Kaiser Air in Santa Rosa — told the news station she grabbed a garden hose alongside firefights to try to keep the flames from engulfing her parent's house in Santa Rosa. (Flores had been staying with her parents as she prepared for a move to a different part of the city.)
By 4:30 a.m., she finally gave up. The house was totally destroyed, with Flores and her parents losing all of her belongings including a special bike she loved. Her parents, who are both in their 70s, will likely now move to Idaho, according to Flores.
Despite the two tragedies, Flores tells the news station that she's holding it together.
"I was really shook up after Vegas. I was shaking and I couldn't calm down," Flores said. "When I was fighting the fire at my house, I was more in a 'task' mode, and so I compartmentalized it."
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Victim of Las Vegas shooting wakes up from coma after bullet struck her forehead
Kamini Ramdeen, AOL.com,AOL.com 3 hours ago
Tina Frost, 27, woke from a coma on Friday to take her first steps since sustaining a bullet to the forehead from being shot by Stephen Paddock on the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
"She opens her left eye just a lil and looks all around the room at us, taps her feet whenever music is playing," Frost's mother, Mary Watson Moreland, said in a statement posted on their GoFundMe page.
Frost was hit by one bullet at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, which caused not only a two-week coma at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas but also the loss of her right eye.
"She's obviously anxious to get her wobble back on," Moreland added. "We are so proud of our Tina, and everyone is amazed at every single movement she makes."
The Maryland woman has received an outstanding show of support from the public after surviving the near-death incident. A GoFundMe was set up for Frost by a family friend and it would go on to raise a shocking $530,065 in donations -- it surpassed their original goal of $50,000 goal by a longshot.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Frost will receive a donated skull implant from a medical supply company in Florida to reconstruct her forehead and the area surrounding her affected eye.
"The doctors have been talking about Tina's next steps and are discussing other hospitals that will have all the specialists she'll need during her long road to recovery," her mother wrote.
So far, Frost has been able to respond to basic commands, flashing a thumbs-up to her boyfriend and more recently breathing without the use of a ventilator, her mother confirmed.
As Frost continues to recover from her injuries and the tragedy that caused them, it is important to note that only one in 45 people who are still hospitalized in Las Vegas are able to respond to basic commands -- and a third of victims are still in critical condition.
- This article was initially published on AOL.com: Victim of Las Vegas shooting wakes up from coma after bullet struck her forehead
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