The screams are burned into 22-year-old Dillon Robinson’s mind.

“Shooter, shooter, and then everybody started panicking,” Robinson said. “People were piling on top of me still screaming.”

Robinson was with his family inside the Fort Lauderdale Airport Friday, waiting to return to Fresno from a holiday cruise.

Then, the news started breaking, people in a terminal nearby had been shot.

“It was absolutely quiet in the terminal, it was just silent.”

Twenty minutes later, panic, people running through after a false report of a second shooter.

“My heart just sank so far, and it just didn’t seem real,” Robinson said. “I was like, this can’t be happening, just a mass, mass movement of people in the terminal.”

Robinson took videos on popular social media app Snapchat, not knowing what was going to happen to him, or his family.

Eventually running toward an exit…

“I don’t even remember really running across, it just happened so quick,” Robinson said.

Thousands ended up outside, then Robinson says, were moved to the center of the tarmac, surrounded by armed officers.

At one point, authorities announced they were detonating something.

Buses shipped all out around 3 a.m. Saturday, according to Robinson.

Tempers were running high, people wanted to get home.

Robinson was just thankful to be safe.

“Be happy that you’re alive, you’re going to get your things, you’re going to get out of here,” Robinson said. “You guys are lucky.”

Reporting in Fresno, Megan Rupe.