ORLANDO, Fla. _ Newly released phone calls placed during and after the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in June reveal a bloody scene where some people are hiding in a bathroom and others are outside, panicking.
In one call placed about 2:38 a.m., a woman tells a dispatcher that she's just outside the Orlando club with her sister, who was bleeding from her side or back and not responding.
"Am I supposed to do something?" the panicky woman asks.
"Is she bleeding a lot?" the dispatcher responds.
"She looks like she's bleeding a lot," the woman says.
The dispatcher tells her to get a clean cloth, if she can find one and apply pressure directly to the wound.
The woman begins to sob "My God."
"We're going to get your sister some help, O.K.?" the dispatcher says.
A few seconds later, the woman says, "She's just laying there."
A few seconds later the line went dead.
In a later call at 5:06 a.m., a woman calls 911 about her brother-in-law and a friend, who she says are hiding in the bathroom.
"I just want to see if they were getting rescued. He's bleeding a lot," the woman says.
Dispatcher: "Yeah, we actually have a dispatcher on the line with them active and we have SWAT inside the building. They're going to attempt to get them out here soon."
Woman: (voice faint, sounds like she's in tears): "OK. Thank you. Bye."
The calls were part of a new batch released Monday by the city of Orlando in response to public-records requests from the news media.
The June 12 shooting at Pulse in Orlando killed 49 people and injured at least 68. The standoff lasted about three hours.
Gunman Omar Mateen was shot to death after law officers arrived.
In another call at 5:04 a.m., the Orange County Sheriff's Office called Orlando police to say a man was texting a friend from inside the middle bathroom at the club "near the trash cans." The man said he was with four people who had gunshot wounds.
(Staff writer Charles Minshew contributed to this report.)
