The brother of a 15-year-old Merseyside girl killed in the Manchester Arena bombing feared he was going to die too as he was forced to wait in pain for more than four hours for an ambulance.
Bradley Hurley had attended the Ariana Grande concert on May 22 2017 with his younger sister, Megan - a "big fan" of the singer, and the pair were up to four metres away when Salman Abedi detonated his suicide bomb.
Mr Hurley, from Halewood, said as they approached the stairs into the City Room foyer, she said to him "what an experience that was" and they both laughed as he took out his phone to tell his parents, Michael and Joanne, where to meet them.
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Seconds later his vision went "completely white" and he heard a "sharp, high-pitched piercing sound", the public inquiry into the terror attack heard.
He then felt intense pain and knew straight away that both his legs were broken and that Megan, who was not moving or breathing, had died.
He said: "The room quickly descended into chaos. I could hear shouting and screams of pain coming from every direction, the room was dimly lit and smoky.
"It was just like I couldn't even leave, I had been next to Megan and it was just... the worst imaginable situation."
Someone wrapped a belt around his leg as a tourniquet but he said everyone he spoke to seemed "fleeting and hectic".
He said: "They would leave me and check on someone else and then not come back, and I kept asking if the ambulances were coming."
He said a label with the number two was placed around his wrist which he said he subsequently learned meant he was a second priority to leave.
He said: "Which kind of shocked me because I was really badly injured and obviously in so much pain and bleeding, and also had just lost Megan and everything, so I don't know, it seems mad to me looking back that it was a two.
"I had 11 large holes and shrapnel entered my leg. It also confuses me that I was the last survivor to leave the City Room and I was really badly injured.
"I think it was an hour and eight minutes that I was on the floor in so much pain and constantly just asking for help."
Megan's shattered phone rang and he told the inquiry he had tell their mother her daughter had died.
He said: "She was saying 'she hadn't, she must be unconscious, don't say that'."
His father then came into the City Room where he too learned of his daughter's death and then later reassured his son that help was on the way, but Mr Hurley said it "never came".
Mr Hurley said he thought he was "going to wake up from a nightmare".
He said: "It just doesn't happen to people like us, it just felt so strange.
"I knew we were in the middle of a major city and there had been a terrorist attack so like there is going to be so much help and you are going straight to hospital. And I knew there were so many injured people and couldn't fathom how little resources there seemed to be.
"I couldn't understand how in a clear, major incident there was a lack of paramedics."
He told the inquiry he did not remember seeing any paramedics.
Mr Hurley said he was carried out on the makeshift stretcher of a barrier, found by his father, and then lifted down stairs by multiple police officers, still in excruciating pain.
He was then taken to a casualty clearing area at the adjoining Victoria rail station where he was taken off the stretcher and placed on the "freezing cold" concourse floor.
Mr Hurley said throughout this time he had not received any pain relief and it was only until an off-duty nurse, who also attended the concert, came to his aid that he felt somebody had taken charge for the first time as she cut off his jeans to assess his injuries.
Mr Hurley admitted he began to think he might not get to hospital in time.
He said: "Being so long at that point I was thinking there is every chance that I could bleed to death and it started to cross my mind a lot that I might not survive."
He recalled a man in a red uniform intervening to say no more ketamine should be administered to him because he had had "enough to kill a horse."
Mr Hurley was finally moved into an ambulance at 2.44am - four hours and 13 minutes after the blast - and arrived at Manchester Royal Infirmary seven minutes later.
He said: "It was just such a long time to be in that much pain . Over four hours, just bizarre to me looking back and I would hope that no-one would ever have to go through that again."
The inquiry heard he needed four "big" operations on his legs and on second degree burns he suffered.
He said: "From my experience, I don't think the emergency response to the blast worked well. I feel very lucky my parents were there and came into the City Room. If the were not there I fear it could have taken even longer for my extraction."
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