[Music] and then the emergency activation button went off you knew he was in trouble it was awful i mean your heart just drops as soon as you hear that knowing that one of our own needs help and there's kind of a helpless feeling being on that opposite end and hearing the distress taiwan restricted first to charlie 31 at preston sweetie hi adrenaline charlie there you go stuart charlie 31 health is on the way my name is deputy eric larson i'm a deputy sheriff with the pinal county sheriff's office we got dispatched about 9 30 in the morning to a call in reference to an individual who's being stung by bees the metal subject is pinned down by the bees they can't get to the subject i don't know if he's breathing i could see that there were some residual bees still around the original victim but the swarm that they had indicated initially was not there figured i would get my fire extinguisher which was in the back of my tahoe when i opened the back door of my tahoe i was immediately surrounded by bees one second was daylight the next it was complete darkness it's like taking a stocking cap and covering your entire face that's what it felt like they bounce off of you almost like you're being shot with bird shot from a shotgun they're just so disorienting and then um the pain that that comes from being stung that many times it it felt like i was on fire trying to sprint create some distance from the bees didn't work ultimately i was jumping in the ditch rolling in the ditch two charlie 31 push plenty negative contact 9 39. [Applause] field worker who was with the original victim uh ultimately came over to where i was at and laid on top of me and covered him and myself with a blanket so charlie 31 code 20 negative contact i was in such pain that i knew that i was in a place that i couldn't physically help myself i had to have help from someone else so i could hear the radio transmission but it was really hard to even do anything else but just fight charlie 31 code 20 negative contact 936 it's dead air i mean the adrenaline is off the roof it's silence your heart starts racing you start looking around the room you know your partner's looking at you with fear i'm you know we're looking at each other with fear because it's dead silence your heart is going really fast but the same time you're trying to stay calm and but it's it's like you're not breathing like you definitely hold your breath while you wait it was hectic it was trying to get him the help that he needed you're charlie 31 from 20 [Music] what what do you think ah see charlie 31 copy multiple bee stings i work with the same deputies daily you just want to make sure they get home we're on on the same time they are it gets a little personal especially when you start to work with them more often you understand them you start thinking of their families their kids they're not just co-workers you know they are a part of a family it's stressful for them too they they have a traumatic experience in that sense just as much as i did everything that we do could be a delay of service medical probably could have been out there to him change of locations because the location kept changing super incredible the dispatchers that that were on duty that day they are they were my lifeline piece of the scene streetcar was everyone is east of the scene on the ground okay 32 i got him he's on the side he's down uh he has a blanket over him somebody's there with them be aware those things will chase you they'll follow you load them up into a vehicle get them away once he found me he put me in the back of his truck and drove i got him and i'm out of here he had to go quite a distance before they actually stopped following us baby you must come to me i'm getting away from the scene 31 is alert and conscious he's talking to us we have an iv established airbags off the ground 12 minute ep i was later told by the er doctor that that treated me that it was a good thing that i got flown my airway was partially closing it was probably just over 200. stingers that i took out of my my body we were still scared even after the call even after we knew he was at the hospital i know that it's hard for them to be on the other end of the phone or the other end of the radio and to have that stress when he finally got checked into the hospital he called up i was definitely worried about him until i got to talk to him i felt so much better once i did i know oftentimes they don't they don't get the final outcome of a call when he called up he got me first and he says hey it's deputy larson and i said oh my god are you okay and he says yes but i'm calling to check upon you how are you guys doing okay that's insane i mean he's the one who's being attacked we were just i don't know we're just grateful that he got help that's what we were more worried about i'm not thinking about how i feel in the moment when it's happening i'm more just concerned about them i know that it's not just a one individual effort it was a collective effort by all the dispatchers that were up there that day i can't imagine myself doing anything else at this point it's a rush and it's it's always something different but it's i don't know you have a sense of pride in what you do like you know that you're helping people and you're helping these deputies my family's grateful for it so as a mind [Music] you