Angry bees closed two popular hiking trails in Arizona on Tuesday after attacking eight hikers, sending one to the hospital. The incident occurred on Camelback Mountain northeast of downtown Phoenix. At 9:15 a.m. on May 19, the Phoenix Fire Department (PFD) received a call from a hiker who had been attacked and stung by bees. As more calls started coming in from other hikers, the firefighters upgraded their response to a “greater alarm mountain rescue” and dispatched a team to the scene.
“Units were immediately sent to both the Cholla and Echo Canyon trails, with our drone and the Phoenix Police Department FireBird helicopter providing aerial reconnaissance to locate anyone in need,” the Phoenix Fire Department wrote in a Facebook post about the incident.
Both technical rescue teams and firefighters began hiking the trails in search of bee sting victims. In total, they found and treated eight hikers, one of whom required further evaluation and was taken to the hospital…