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In addition to personal efforts made by both students and university staff to both comfort and assist as well as move the wounded to safety, efforts made to reach the wounded by medical personnel included an armored car and provisioned ambulances run by local funeral homes.

One of the many ambulance drivers to attend the scene, 30-year-old Morris Hohmann, was shot in the leg on West 23rd Street as he attempted to evacuate the numerous wounded personnel.

The wound severed a major artery.

A fellow ambulance driver administered first aid to Hohmann, who was then taken to Brackenridge Hospital-the only hospital which held a local emergency room.

In response to the influx of wounded and killed as a result of the Texas Sniper shootings, the Brackenridge Hospital administrator declared a state of emergency.

In response, medical staff raced to this location to reinforce the on-duty shifts.

( In response to the shootings, numerous volunteers also donated blood at both Brackenridge Hospital and the Travis County Blood Bank.