‘9-1-1’ Season 8 Clip Shows ‘Bee-Nado’ Attacking Los Angeles (Exclusive)

They’ve 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 will be faced with something they’ve never seen before: 22 million killer bees released on Los Angeles.

“We just wanted to create some buzz,” 9-1-1 Co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear jokes that Weekly Entertainment of the decision made during the disaster that marked the season opener of his first responder drama on ABC.

In an EW exclusive clip (above), crates of bees are seen toppling over in a truck crash, 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 Season 8 teaser noted that “the average person can’t survive 500 bee stings.”)

In the clip, set to Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight,” a newly mustached Eddie (Ryan Guzman) asks his fellow firefighters at Station 118, Buck (Oliver Stark), Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and Hen (Aisha Hinds), if they think the bees will “just fly away.” “Not likely,” Hen replies.

“It’s a bee,” Buck guesses as the swarm swirls and attacks.

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As EW previously reported, 9-1-1 returns on September 26 with each member of Fire Station 118 facing a crisis: Bobby (Peter Krause) is forced out of retirement and takes a job as a technical advisor on an action TV show called The best (how meta!); he and Athena (Angela Bassett) search for a new home after theirs burned down at the end of Season 7; Buck reels from Gerrard’s (Brian Thompson) appointment as the new captain of the 118; Maddie and Chimney do what they can to keep Hen and Karen (Tracie Thoms) in their adopted daughter Mara’s life despite the efforts of Councilwoman Ortiz (Verónica Falcón), who is now running for mayor; and mourns her son’s move to Texas.

And then of course there are the bees.