I was at a fire in northern California about 8 to 9 years ago. I was running a saw and my captain instructed me to cut up some limbs from a half burned tree. I walked up to the limbs that were on the ground and asked my captain what the pink flagging is. He says “dont worry about it”.

I cut 1 branch and pull it to the side and up from the ground come meat bees. They shoot out like it was a cartoon. I throw the saw down and start backing up. The bees come right at me. I try to swat one and it bites me on the eye brow right under my glasses. I turn around and run and the bees bite me 2 times in the back of the head.
The funny part was my captain was yelling at me because I threw the saw down and left it. Later that day the crew and my captain had to laugh about it . I was on a really good crew.

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