Guests staying at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas described the confusion that came after a Tesla Cybertruck full of explosives detonated outside the ritzy property the previous day — causing some, including older guests, to climb down dozens of flights of stairs.
The startling explosion set off by active Army member Matthew Livelsberger on Wednesday rocked the glossy 64-story tower and disturbed tourists who were in Sin City for the start of the New Year.
“Someone knocked on the door and said, ‘You need to get out. There’s been an explosion.’ So we just jumped up, and got dressed,” Australian tourist Linda Murray, 71, told The Post Thursday.
Murray, who was staying in adjoining rooms near the top of the hotel with her children and seven grandchildren, said by the time all of the family members were together, the elevators weren’t working so they had to walk down 55 flights of stairs.
Couple Lauren Straub, 31, and Elad Levy, 34, were on their way to check out around the time the explosion went off.
“So we were just going down for checkout, and the elevator wasn’t working, so we walked down the stairs from the 29th floor,” Straub, of Asbury Park, NJ, said.
“There was a Trump hotel employee there who told us what was going on, and they just had everyone evacuate into the lot adjacent to the hotel.”
Hotel guests were required to hand over information to Las Vegas authorities before they could leave the premises.
“They had to take our names and birth dates. We had our passports. Not everyone had their passports. And took all that information, and then we were allowed to go out,” Murray, who lives in Sydney said.
“We then came to the mall, I guess at the other end, we sat and had a lovely meal and relaxed and kind of got our thoughts together.”
Cindy Banuelos, who was traveling from Glendora, California, called communication between the hotel staff and guests hit or miss.
She ended up staying in her room the entire day without room service.
“Luckily, I had some supplies and some leftovers from New Year’s Eve to eat, some food to eat,” she told The Post.
“I stayed in the room, and there was no communication until late in the afternoon from the valet, telling me that they were unable to take out the car.”
“The accommodations are nice here,” she added. “I think that they were really quite surprised that this happened.”
While investigators were still probing a motive behind the explosion by Livelsberger, 37, who fatally shot himself before the car went up in flames, it was business as usual at the Trump Hotel Thursday as guests bustled in and out.
A Cybertruck was even parked in the same driveway less than 36 hours after the scary incident.
One worker, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, was off during the explosion but remarked he would have been standing right near where the explosion happened. He came into work later that day.
The employee came in on Thursday despite originally being off to help out, he said, because “This is my home.”
While Los Angeles native Sebastian Garcia, 17, slept through the explosion, the blast woke up his 50-year-old mother Monica Acosta.
“She said she just felt like rumbling in the building and then later saw smoke from the lobby downstairs,” Garcia recounted.
“She thought maybe someone was messing around with fireworks in another area. That’s what she thought because she heard like they were lighting up some fireworks.”
Livelsberger packed fireworks in the car, but the Cybertruck absorbed most of the force and contained the explosion, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said on Thursday.
Seven people suffered minor injuries and there was no real damage to the hotel.
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