One person was transported to a local hospital with a nonlethal gunshot wound to the leg after accidentally discharging a handgun at Liberty Firearms Institute in Johnstown on Friday morning.

Loveland Fire Rescue Authority Battalion Chief Eric Klaas said firefighters and Thompson Valley Emergency Medical Services crews arrived at the shooting range at 4990 Ronald Reagan Blvd. within five minutes of being dispatched at 11:31 a.m. He said the 911 call came in as an accidental discharge of a handgun.

He said crews arrived to find one patient at the indoor shooting range; an ambulance transported the person to a local hospital, where the victim’s condition remains unknown to the Reporter-Herald.

Staff members at Liberty Firearms Institute declined to give any further details Friday, saying they were still looking into the incident.

“The staff up there did an outstanding job providing medical care and had bleeding controlled,” Klaas said.

Klaas noted that May marks National Stop the Bleed Month, and Friday’s incident showed how important first aid skills can be. Organizers of the national effort urge citizens to be trained to stop bleeding in an effort to prevent deaths caused by severe blood loss.