ORLANDO, Fla. _ Deputy Mark Rutkoski held his gun in front of him as he ran inside Pulse nightclub past warnings that it was a "hot zone" with the gunman still inside.
Trash littered the ground. A cell phone lit up on the floor. Blue lights flashed above.
He took less than a second to react to the horror � muttering "holy (expletive)" � and then helped carry out a victim. He started breathing heavier as he and other law enforcement officers take the victim across the street to a triage center.
He looked at his gloves, smeared with blood, and then walked back.
Rutkoski's body camera video, released Thursday from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, offers one of the first looks at the horror, chaos and confusion first responders encountered inside the Pulse nightclub on June 12.
The shooting left 49 people dead and more than 50 injured.
Footage released from Rutkoski's camera lasts more than an hour, and is heavily redacted and edited in such a way that none of injured or deceased victims are visible.
There are no time stamps recorded on the video, but during one of his trips inside the club, Rutkoski's camera captured liquor bottles behind the empty bar and discarded surgical-style gloves on the ground.
Deputies got word over their radios that people found alive in an upstairs office were coming out. They were told to walk with their hands up toward the club's door.
Rutkoski grabbed a man in a dark shirt with brightly-colored flowers and held his hands behind his back, leading him out of the club. Part of their encounter was blacked-out, but their voices still recorded.
The man seemed to be in shock. He said he was a DJ at the club and was in the main room.
"Holy (expletive)," he repeated, crying. "Holy (expletive)."
Rutkoski kept walking.
"Do you know where the suspect's at?" he asked the man. The man said he didn't and kept crying.
Rutkoski led him out and then immediately went back. He waited for more victims as deputies and Orlando police officers looked around.
"We got any more?" someone asked Rutkoski.
"Uh, not that it looks like," he replied. "Not that are moving at all."
A few minutes later an iPhone rang. No one answered.
The officers were standing in a group near an entrance, waiting for orders.
"It's pretty bad in there," one officer told another. "You don't wanna look."
The recording stops, then picks up again with Rutkoski outside a nearby gas station.
The radio crackles.
"Did you guys get that?" one of the officers with Rutkoski said. "Forty-two victims."
"Damn. That's, like, more than any active shooter I can remember in recent ... " Rutkoski said, trailing off.
Later in the video, Rutkoski stood outside the club with a group of deputies behind Einstein Bagels listening to orders over the scanner. They were told about possible explosives and ordered to "get back."
The deputies started running, hiding behind trees and a wall. The video then goes black for more than a minute.
When recording began again, people screamed and deputies were told to hold hard cover.
Eventually, word came over the radios that the "suspect is down but he is strapped and they think there is more victims in there." Rutkoski was with a group of deputies near Dunkin Donuts, just south of Pulse.
They then got word that an Orlando police officer was shot in the helmet.
"Is the officer all right?" Rutkoski asked someone around him.
"Yeah, they walked him out," someone responded.
"Wow," Rutkoski said. "Thank God."
