LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — As Las Vegas marks 8 years since a mass shooting took the lives of 58 people on October 1, 2017, a team of EMS was already on scene the moments shots rang out.

Community Ambulance had 21 of their team members in a medical tent at the Route 91 Harvest festival that night. It’s something they often do during big events.

“I’ve been doing this for 41 years, but that night I can remember it so vividly,” said Chief Brian Rogers of Community Ambulance. As Las Vegas marks 8 years since a mass shooting took the lives of 58 people on October 1, 2017, a team of EMS were already on scene the moments shots rang out.

For some of the EMS workers, this festival was their very first shift. Of those 21, Chief Roger’s daughter was working as an EMS.

“I get a call from my daughter,

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