Firefighters from Las Vegas and North Las Vegas using a water tanker and engine company cooled the bees by spraying water on the truck twice during the afternoon. Because the truck was not in motion, air could not cool the hives and the bees were beginning to die from exposure to the sunlight. The water saturated the hive boxes, which in turn cooled the honeycomb inside the hives for a few hours. As the bees were being overheated, many thousands were beginning to escape and many were dying.
The truck was later towed to an area, which provided shade and an ability to cool the hives until repairs could be made to the truck, which was expected to take several hours.
The company that owns the bees says the bees were worth approximately $100,000.