Three people and two dogs were injured by a swarm of bees in the back yard of their home Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Nicole Sinder said the bees attacked her, her boyfriend and her dogs as she was bathing the animals in the back yard.
"They just appeared in the back yard and when we looked out there were thousands of them all over the place," said Charles Graham.
Sinder said the bees also got inside her home.
"They were coming in under the door," she said. "It was terrifying. I jumped in the shower and I started washing my hair out. They stung me on the hand while I was washing."
Lt. Rick Pardo with the Fort Lauderdale Fire Department was one of first firefighters to arrive. The bees stung him too.
"We put on full gear and went back inside and found the dogs that were being stung," Pardo said. "The one big dog had at least 100 stings."
Sasha, a Siberian husky, spent about two hours at veterinarian's office Tuesday night because of the bee stings.
"We treated the dog on the scene and gave him a shot of Benadryl," fire rescue spokesman Stephen McInerny said. "We had the owner rush the dog to an animal hospital."
Firefighters sprayed foam on the bees to kill the insects. Investigators found a huge beehive inside a hollowed out tree stump.
Sinder said she thinks she may have agitated the hive while she bathed Sasha in the back yard.
"I'm just lucky that nothing really bad happened," Sinder said.
