Chaotic': brave ambo recalls mass shooting in outback

Chaotic': brave ambo recalls mass shooting in outback recounts the experience of paramedic Georgiia Birrer during a remote mass shooting response in western New South Wales. Birrer, one of six paramedics based in Condobolin, traveled nearly 100 km to Lake Cargelligo on January 22 after a gunman killed three people and an unborn child, and injured one other person. She later described the scene as “very chaotic” and “quite dangerous,” saying she focused on reaching her colleague and doing her job in a highly unpredictable environment. The shooter, Julian Ingram, later murdered former partner Sophie Quinn, 25, and John Harris, 32, and also killed Quinn’s aunt Nerida Quinn; Ingram was found dead in bushland 109 days later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Birrer received a NSW Ambulance award in Orange, while another courage award went to Muhammad Taha for confronting a knife-wielding attacker at Westfield Bondi Junction on April 13, 2024, where Joel Cauchi was fatally shot by police officer Amy Scott.