9-1-1 Season 8 Teaser on ABC

Los Angeles will soon become a real-life Wicker Man thanks to the first teaser for Season 8 of 9-1-1. The upcoming episode — as well as the bee-themed three-part series opener — will premiere on ABC on September 26. New episodes will be available to stream the next day on Hulu and Disney+.

So far, the “9-1-1” team has dealt with tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and a bouncy castle that flew away. But this time, it's 22 million killer bees who are declaring war on them in the natural disaster. Set to Phil Collins' “In the Air Tonight,” the 30-second teaser begins with Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) taking an emergency call. Then the camera immediately snaps shut and shows a truck loaded with several boxes exploding.

“The truck was carrying 22 million killer bees,” a colleague in the dispatch department tells Maddie.

“Enough bees to kill them…?” she asks.

“Forty-four thousand people.”

As this version of “In the Air Tonight” gets wilder, the camera shows people wildly punching each other in the face. At one point, it follows Eddie (Ryan Guzman) as he fights for his life. “It's a bee-nado,” explains Buck (Oliver Stark), ever the wordsmith. Watch the full teaser below:

The upcoming season picks up where the events of season 7 left off and features Captain Vincent Gerrard (Brian Thompson) as the new Bobby (Peter Krause). While Bobby tries to adjust to life as a retiree by working as a consultant for a TV show, the rest of the firehouse must deal with this new chief. Meanwhile, he and Athena (Angela Bassett) must find a new home after their old one burns down, and Maddie and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) try to let Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen (Tracie Thoms) into the life of their foster daughter Mara.

9-1-1 was originally set to air on Fox before the network canceled the series in May 2023. ABC quickly stepped in to save the day. This first season on the new network garnered the largest multiplatform audience of any ABC 2023-24 premiere in a month, reaching 13.47 million total viewers.

EW was the first to report this story.