From Christmas parties to crisis: how lifesavers responded to the Bondi beach shooting – video

Two concurrent Christmas parties were taking place at the Bondi and North Bondi surf lifesaving clubs when shots rang out in Sydney’s east on Sunday, and dozens more lifesavers were stationed on the beach patrolling what had been a busy, sunny afternoon. In an extraordinary turn of events, lifesavers were the first responders on the scene – assisting victims of the shooting before emergency services or police had arrived