reports of fireworks
> Another witness, Vincent Sager, said he mistook the shots for “fireworks” but quickly realized he was wrong when he saw "someone run by me in blood,”
> Payne told ABC News. "The initial string of gunfire sounded like a small chain of like fireworks, like firecrackers."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-shooting-eyewitness-sounded-thousand-shots/story?id=50225345 https://archive.is/YEqSV
> Monique Dumas from British Columbia, Canada, said she was at the concert, six rows from the stage when she thought she heard a bottle breaking, and then a burst of popping sounds that sounded like fireworks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victims-of-las-vegas-shooting-list-names-latest-update/ https://archive.is/GCOaD
> 'I Heard What I Thought Was Fireworks'
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>PAM SCHNEIDER: I heard what I thought was fireworks, but yet I didn't see anything lighting up the sky. And then it had kind of a strange sound, almost like a helicopter maybe going into, like, a crash or something. It was a - such a strange sound. And then I realized what I was actually hearing was automatic gunfire.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/02/555046920/-i-heard-what-i-thought-was-fireworks https://archive.is/pHo83