9-1-1 Season 8 Preview Clip Shows 'Bee-Nado' Attacking Los Angeles (Exclusive)

They have dealt with earthquakes, a tsunami, cruise ship disasters and even escaped zoo animals. But in the Season 8 premiere, the firefighters of 9-1-1 are confronted with something they have never seen before: 22 million killer bees are released over Los Angeles.

“We just wanted to attract a little attention,” 9-1-1 Co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear jokes Weekly entertainment the decision for the disaster at the season opener of his ABC first responder series.

In an exclusive preview clip for EW (above), boxes of bees are seen tipping over in a truck accident, and 911 dispatcher Josh (Bryan Safi) tells Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) that there are enough insects on the loose to kill 44,000 people. (A previously released teaser for Season 8 said that “the average person cannot survive 500 bee stings.”)

In the clip, which is set to Phil Collins' “In the Air Tonight,” a freshly made-up Eddie (Ryan Guzman) asks his comrades Buck (Oliver Stark), Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and Hen (Aisha Hinds) from Fire Station 118 if they think the bees will “just fly away.” “Not likely,” Hen replies.

“It’s a swarm of bees,” Buck guesses as the swarm whirls around and attacks.

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As EW previously reported, 9-1-1 returns on September 26th and every member of the 118th Fire Station faces a crisis: Bobby (Peter Krause) is forced to continue his retirement and takes a job as a technical consultant on an action TV show called Hotshots (how meta!); he and Athena (Angela Bassett) are looking for a new home after theirs burned down by arson at the end of Season 7; Buck is devastated that Gerrard (Brian Thompson) has been named the new captain of the 118; Maddie and Chimney are doing what they can to keep Hen and Karen (Tracie Thoms) in their foster daughter Mara's life, despite the efforts of Councilwoman Ortiz (Verónica Falcón), who is now running for mayor; and he is mourning his son's move to Texas.

And then, of course, there are the bees.