BOULDER CREEK — Throughout rescue efforts for a deceased driver found Friday morning off Bear Creek Highway, firefighters had been beset by a nest of stinging floor bugs.
The Boulder Creek Fireplace Division, together with the California Freeway Patrol and American Medical Response, was referred to as round 11:15 a.m. to non-public property between Starr Creek and Hawk Ridge roads. A caller reported discovering an overturned car that had gone off the street and ended up wedged between two bushes.
Boulder Creek Fireplace Chief Mark Bingham stated the car had been severely broken within the crash and that a person was noticed trapped inside. Initially, the extent of the car injury made “extrication and even analysis of the affected person within the car fairly troublesome,” Bingham stated.
“A considerable amount of bees got here out of the bottom that was proper in our work space, the place the car was,” Bingham stated. “It will definitely mainly chased the firefighters and myself out of that space.”
Firefighters wanted to dampen the realm to maintain the stinging bees or wasps at bay whereas they labored, Bingham stated. Within the course of, two firefighters had been stung repeatedly, sending one responder into anaphylactic shock, he stated. Paramedics stopped the response with an epinephrine injection and the firefighter was “doing properly” by Friday afternoon, in line with Bingham.
California Freeway Patrol officers weren’t instantly out there Friday to touch upon particulars of the deadly crash.
