Palm Beach County honored the courage of two Wellington sisters who survived the Las Vegas shooting and assisted others during the massacre.

Lulu Farina accepted a proclamation from County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay Tuesday on behalf of herself and her sister, Lauren Farina, who did not attend the county meeting because she is still recovering from injuries she had sustained before the shooting last month, which killed 58 people and injured another 546.

The father of the women, retired Broward County Sheriff Deputy Carlos Farina, joined Lulu Farina as she accepted the proclamation.

"I’m not a hero," Lulu Farina said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post. "I’m just an every day American helping other Americans."

Lulu Farina, of Wellington, hugs her father Carlos after receiving a proclamation given to her and her sister Lauren for courage during the Las Vegas concert siege, awarded by Palm Beach County commissioners at the Government Center in West Palm Beach on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

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The Farina sisters, wedding planners and florists, plan to return to Las Vegas this weekend to see some of the memorials erected in the aftermath of what remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Lulu Farina said she knows their return to Las Vegas will be emotional but believes it is necessary.

"I really believe it’s part of the healing process — some closure for us to see what we went through, to see what we overcame, to put the pieces together," she said.

The sisters were praised for their efforts during the Las Vegas shooting, which occurred during a country music festival.

Lulu Farina dragged her sister to safety once the shooting began. She then helped her sister into the back of a pickup truck that had stopped to collect the wounded. Lulu Farina assisted others they got into the truck and applied pressure to the wound of a fellow concert-goer who was shot.

Lauren Farina used her cellphone to film and record the mayhem, and, once in the back of the pickup truck with wounded concert-goers, guided the driver to a nearby hospital.

There, Lulu Farina — still bloodied from the wounds of those who had been shot — assisted hospital staff by applying tourniquets, collecting names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of the wounded.

"The Farinas displayed tremendous courage during the siege," the proclamation states.

The mass murder in Las Vegas consumed the news during the early part of October, but it has since been overshadowed by yet another mass shooting, the Sutherland Springs, Texas, murders that claimed the lives of 26 people Sunday.

"I was at home watching TV and heard about that," Lulu Farina said. "It did bring back quite a bit of thoughts and emotions for us. So soon after…it was just like what happened with us. You just can’t really believe it."

Returning to Las Vegas will help with healing, Lulu Farina said. So will sharing the framed proclamation with her sister, she said.

"It really does help us," Lulu Farina said. "I can’t wait to show it to her. It’s beautiful. It’s so pretty. It helps us bring a positive to a situation that in so many ways is so tragic and negative. It really helps us look at things a little bit better."