BEES!
Minnesota — One truck carried millions of bees, and firefighters fought them with hoses to reach the victims.
Two cars had been crushed, one person was dead, another was fatally injured, and if that wasn’t enough, emergency crews had to make it through a cloud of bees to reach the victims.
Two semitrailer trucks — one carrying millions of bees — and two cars collided on Interstate 35 in Lakeville late Monday morning, a crash that closed the northbound lanes along a 5-mile stretch of the interstate between County Road 2 and County Road 70 for several hours.
All through the sweltering afternoon, after the badly injured driver was airlifted to a hospital, emergency personnel used fire hoses to battle thousands of bees that escaped from the beehives and swarmed the area.
“I saw this big black cloud,” said Lakeville Fire Chief Scott Nelson, one of the first people on the scene. “I opened up my door and got stung in the face by a couple of bees.”
He told other firefighters to come in full gear, face masks on, for protection. “We’re all taking a sting here or a sting there,” Nelson said as he stood near the scene.
Lt. Eric Roeske of the Minnesota State Patrol said investigators are uncertain what caused the crash, which left two cars, a Chevrolet Lumina and a Pontiac Bonneville, crumpled between the two trucks.
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May 29th, 2010 at 11:06 PM
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