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Joshua Ruzsa, 19, Identified as Victim of Fatal Fall in Camelback Bee Attack

By Ray Stern Tue., Oct. 30 2012 at 12:07 PM

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Image: Facebook

Josh Ruzsa died on Monday after falling about 60 feet on a cliff at Camelback Mountain. He and two hiking companions had been attacked by bees after climbing a cliff face.

Phoenix police have identified Joshua Ruzsa, 19, as the victim in a fatal fall that was the result of bee attack yesterday at Camelback Mountain.

Ruzsa's Facebook site says he was a 2011 graduate of the E-Institute in Surprise, attended Glendale Community College and was preparing to enter U.S. Marine Corps boot camp next year.

Ruzsa and two friends began hiking at the Echo Canyon trail head on Monday afternoon before climbing up the face, which we detailed in our previous post today.

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Camelback Mountain Hiker Dies After Fall During Bee Attack, Two Others Stung 300 Times Each; Off Main Trail on Climbing Route

By Ray Stern Tue., Oct. 30 2012 at 9:00 AM

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Image: KPHO-TV

In this Channel 5 News (KPHO-TV) screen shot from a dramatic mountain rescue at Camelback yesterday, a firefighter in a bee suit is lowered into a crevice to help two victims of a bee attack. A third hiker fell to his death.

Three Camelback hikers who decided to take a side route up a climbing trail encountered a swarm of bees on Monday afternoon, and one man died after falling 60 feet.

The other two men were stung about 300 times each, says Captain Scott McDonald, Phoenix Fire Department spokesman.

A beautiful, fall day on the popular Echo Canyon Trail turned into pandemonium, with dozens of firefighters -- some in white bee suits -- closing the mountain and performing a tricky, helicopter-assisted technical rescue. Some of the bees flew to the main trail and parking lot, stinging several other hikers, McDonald says.

The two survivors, having climbed into an area from which they couldn't escape without down-climbing, were forced to huddle in a rock hollow with hundreds of angry bees in pursuit.

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attack, bees, camelback, camelback mountain, climbers, climbing, echo canyon trail, fall, george route, swarm

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Camelback Mountain Bees on the Attack: UPDATE -- Stung Hiker Takes Fatal Fall

By Ray Stern Mon., Oct. 29 2012 at 4:16 PM

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Image: Ray Stern

A beehive at Camelback Mountain.

Bees at Camelback Mountain attacked several hikers this afternoon, causing at least one person to ~~become~~ ~~injured~~ die in a fall, authorities say. (See today's update by clicking here.)

"A bunch of hikers were getting attacked," says Captain Scott McDonald, Phoenix Fire Department spokesman, who was still gathering info at the mountain park when we caught him on his cell.

The attack reportedly occurred on Echo Canyon Trail, involving at least three hikers.

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africanized, attack, bees, camelback, camelback mountain, echo canyon, hikers, honeybees, killer

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Bees Strike Again: Man Stung Severely Just Hours After Attack on Elderly Woman

By James King Thu., Aug. 20 2009 at 4:51 PM

Categories: Bees!, News

Run and hide! The Phoenix bee invasion has claimed yet another victim.

Just hours after an 81-year-old woman was attacked yesterday by a swarm of Africanized bees near 33rd Avenue, south of Cactus Road, a 72-year-old man, on the other side of town, was also attacked.

Phoenix Fire Department officials say the man was using a shop-vac to try and vacuum hundreds of bees out of a tree in his yard near 32nd Street and Indian School Road Wednesday night, when the little monsters fought back.

When the brave Phoenician took it upon himself to defend his city against bees, which have now attacked at least four times since April, he was stung about 100 times, fire officials say.

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"Bee" Careful: That's What the Phoenix Fire Department's Telling Us After Latest Bee Attack Leaves Elderly Woman Hospitalized

By James King Wed., Aug. 19 2009 at 3:02 PM

Categories: Bees!, News

Remember when bees were nice? Sure there was an occasional sting here and there, but they never seemed to be out for blood like these Africanized monsters we have today.

An 81-year-old Phoenix woman is the latest victim of the implacable insect, after she was found on her porch near 33rd Avenue, south of Cactus Road covered from head to toe by viscious bees.

"She looked nearly unconscious," the woman's neighbor, Marla McKendry tells KTAR radio [92.3 FM]. "She was lying on the ground right there when I came out of my house to pick up my son from school."

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