For Kole, 50, it was especially agonizing to have to tell those near death that he couldn’t do anything for them.

“You have to tell them, ‘I’m sorry. I have to help somebody else,'” he said. “You don’t want to give them false hope, and you want to give those that are serviceable a chance.”

He and his daughter, Rachel, an EMT who had been assigned to the concert, worked in tandem, triaging the injured. Kole estimates that between them they had to deliver that devastating news to a half dozen victims.

But they also were able to treat about 50 people, he said.

Rachel Kole is 20 and has been an EMT only since May. Amid all the agony, she also saw plenty of altruism.

One victim who’d been shot in the arm told her, “You can move on. There are other people who need you more.”

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