A couple from Steinbach was unharmed in Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas. And, Jeremy Plett says they are touched by the kindness of locals after what they witnessed Sunday night.

Plett and wife Tessa were only blocks away from the mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip. At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 others injured after a gunman opened fire at crowds attending an outdoor concert.

Plett says they had just finished watching a show at the Bellagio. As they were getting ready to exit the hotel they heard the sounds of gun shots before mobs of people started running. Plett says the crowds pushed them to the back wall of the hotel. Along the way they got crowd surfed and witnessed people getting knocked down and trampled. 

In the chaos, Plett spotted an employee wave them towards a small door. 

"I actually jumped on a table and climbed to the next level and lifted Tess up over people," recalls Plett.

They quickly followed the employee to a service elevator which brought them to the basement. From there they exited through an employee entrance and out the hotel.

It was then, somebody yelled that there were multiple shooters at a bunch of different locations. Moments later, some locals drove by and offered Jeremy and Tessa a ride. It was two brothers who lived a short distance away.

"We jumped in with them and they were amazing people," says Plett. "They took us back to their place."

As it turned out, the brothers had been involved in organizing the concert. They provided the Pletts with food and offered them a warm shower and a place to sleep.

"They were amazing, they set us up and took good care of us," notes Plett. "They called us their Canadian refugees."

Plett says they weren't in much mood to sleep Sunday night, and so instead they stayed up talking while the brothers made sure everyone was accounted for and fielded phone calls from loved ones. Plett says these brothers were real heroes who, after the shootings helped carry out the injured.

"They actually found a wheelbarrow to roll people out and used barricade gates as stretchers to carry out the wounded," says Plett.

The Pletts are staying at MGM, which Sunday night was used for triage in the aftermath of the shootings. They were finally allowed to return back to their hotel room Monday afternoon. By then, it was clear that there hadn't been multiple shooters, like the early reports had indicated. But rather, a single shooter from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay.

Looking back at it now, Plett admits the unknown of the whole ordeal caused fear.

"In hindsight, it's easy to see what happened," says Plett. "But when you are in it, you just didn't know what was going to come next or how big of a thing this was or what was all happening. Definitely when we were in it, the unknown causes you to have a little bit of fear for sure."

But, in looking back, he also says the people of Las Vegas showed amazing kindness. He says locals were giving rides and offering to make phone calls. Plett also met one guy who had no shoes and was missing clothes after offering what he had to the injured. Today, there were lineups around the block from people wanting to donate blood.

"It was pretty cool to see their community come together," he says.

What is normally a street bustling with activity, today is much quieter. Plett says there are almost no cars on the Las Vegas Strip and in fact he has spotted a few tanks instead.

The Pletts are scheduled to return home Wednesday.