They’ve dealt with earthquakes, tsunamis, cruise ship disasters, and even animals
escaping from a zoo. But in the season 8 premiere, the firefighters of 9-1-1 will face
something they’ve never seen before: 22 million killer bees released on Los Angeles.
“We just wanted to make some noise,” 9-1-1 co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear joked to Entertainment Weekly about the decision to have the disaster open the season on ABC’s first responder drama.

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In the first preview clip exclusive to EW (above), boxes of bees are tipped over in a truck crash, and 911 dispatcher Josh (Bryan Safi) tells Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) that there are enough of the fleeing insects to kill 44,000 people. (An earlier trailer for season 8 stated that “the average person can’t survive 500 bee stings.”) In the clip, set to the Phil Collins song “In the Air Tonight,” a newly mustachioed Eddie (Ryan Guzman) asks 9-1-1 firefighters Buck (Oliver Stark), Chimney (Kenneth Choi), and Hen (Aisha Hinds) if they think the bees will “fly away.” “Not likely,” Hen replies.