A Washington television reporter had to duck for cover during his live broadcast when he was stung by bees after a truck carrying millions of them overturned on Friday morning. Jeff Dubois of KIRO, struggled to get through his report without swatting and waving his hands around as the bees buzzed around Interstate 5. 'Ay yiy yiy! They're flying all over the place,' a panicked Dubois says. 'It's unnerving, to tell you the truth.' During the unexpectedly dangerous report, cameraman Damien Glitch was stung more than 20 times. Scroll Down for Videos . Ouch: Jeff Dubois swats away one of the hundreds of bees that swarmed around him and his cameraman on Friday morning in Washington . 'They were pissed off,' Dubois told the Daily News. 'It was probably the wildest live report I can remember. You're trying to maintain composure, make sense on TV and not get stung by thousands of bees swarming around your head.' All the while Dubois was reporting live, tens of white-suited bee-keepers rushed to save as many of the insects as they could. The truck had just merged onto Interstate 5 around 3:30 a.m. when it tipped on its side, dumping its load of 448 hives, or about 13.7 million bees, Washington State Patrol Trooper Travis Shearer said. The driver, a 36-year-old man from Idaho, was not hurt. The company that owns the insects, Belleville Honey and Beekeeping Supply of Burlington, sent beekeepers to recover as many as possible, and bees covered their protective suits as they worked. Calmer: Dubois and his cameraman moved to safer distance away from the crash and were not bothered by the bees . Millions of bees: Beekeepers attend to a semi-trailer truck that overturned with a cargo of bees on a highway . Aftermath: Bee keepers inspect hives after a semi-truck rolled over early Friday spilling a load of honeybees on the Interstate 5 median . Rush to save the bees: Workers clean up after a semi truck filled with over 400 behives overturned on Interstate 5 . Formulating a plan: Bee keepers stand next to a semi-truck that rolled on Friday morning releasing millions of bees . Bee keepers try to salvage some of the bee hives that were dumped when a semi-truck rolled on Friday . Everywhere: Bees swarm onto a beekeepers truck along northbound Interstate 5 after the crash on Friday morning released them . The bees became more active as the sun rose and the weather warmed, and firefighters had to spray a layer of foam on some of the boxes, killing the insects for safety. Many of the hives were still along the highway more than seven hours after the accident, when a front-end loader began scooping them up and dumping them into a dump truck, Shearer said. The majority of the hives had been crushed. 'I'm sure they'll take that somewhere and try to save as many as they can, but they can do that someplace safer, away from the I-5 corridor,' he said. The bees were being transported from Sunnyside, in central Washington, to a blueberry farm in Lynden, a city near the Canadian border about 100 miles north of Seattle, Shearer said. The company that owns the insects sent beekeepers to recover as many as possible before the firefighters drowned them with foam . Foam: Beekeepers wait to start clearing out the scene of semi-trailer truck that overturned with a cargo of bees . The bees became more active as the sun rose and the weather warmed, and firefighters had to spray a layer of foam on some of the boxes, killing the insects for safety . First responders and reporters alike swatted at the bees as they tried to do their jobs. 'I think everybody there got stung,' Shearer said. Seattle television station KIRO posted a video compilation of its on-scene reporter swatting the insects as he reported on the accident. Shearer urged drivers to keep their windows up and to '(hash)beesafe when traveling through that area,' as he wrote on Twitter. A man who answered the phone at the beekeeping company said he couldn't immediately answer any questions related to the accident.
Jeff Dubois of KIRO was stung during broadcast from site of crash . He and his cameraman were stung dozens of times by bees . Beekeepers moved in to try and save as many bees as they could .