Last Updated on: 4th March 2026, 11:28 am
The usual hopefully Carin won’t scream too loudly in the office when she sees this sentence goes here.
Fire department crews responded to a report of a bee attack and arrived to find “what appeared to be millions” of bees attacking two people outside and also trapping two other people inside the home.
The fire chief said Thursday that ‘millions’ was an exaggeration.
Firefighters used foam to get the bees under control, allowing the victims, an elderly woman and a man in his 30s, to escape the swarm outside.
The man was flown to a hospital in Fort Worth; the elderly woman was driven to a hospital in Cleburne with bee stings. It wasn’t clear how severe their injuries were. Both are expected to be ok.
I realize that Grandview Texas and Ontario Canada are different places, but up here they don’t tend to fly you to the hospital if they’re pretty sure you’re fine enough to wait for the regular ambulance, so I can’t imagine that this fella was in great shape.
Firefighters also had to break into the house to rescue two other people, described as a young child and an older man, because they couldn’t get through the bees to get out on their own. Neither was listed as having been taken for treatment, which is nice.
But the news wasn’t good for everyone. Two small dogs in a kennel outside were killed by multiple stings, and thousands of bees that couldn’t safely be removed from the home’s bathroom wall were killed by whatever it is one uses to euthanize thousands of bees that can’t safely be removed from a home’s bathroom wall.
You can read the full story and find more photos here if that’s a thing you would like to do.