A Texas woman who had only recently recovered from a fractured spine found herself fighting for her life after a routine trip to a storage facility turned into a terrifying attack by hundreds of aggressive bees.

Rachel Kelly-McKee was walking through Goose Island Park Storage in Rockport with her German Shepherd, Chelsea, on Aug. 15 when a massive swarm of Africanized honeybees suddenly descended on them.

Surveillance footage captured Kelly-McKee desperately running through the property, swatting at the insects and screaming for help as the bees covered her body.

She believes Chelsea may have accidentally disturbed the swarm while the two were walking near some trees.

“She came in, and I noticed she had a few bees on her,” Kelly-McKee told CNN. “I thought they were honeybees. I said, ‘Don’t bring the bees in here.’”

But within seconds, the situation exploded.

“The minute we cleared that door, I was just absolutely inundated,” she said.

Kelly-McKee and Chelsea took off in different directions as the swarm chased them.

“She ran one way, and I ran the other way,” Kelly-McKee recalled. “I ran all around here just swatting and trying to get them off of me and screaming.”

Things became even more frightening when Kelly-McKee reached an automatic storage gate and realized she was trapped.

The gate was designed to open only when triggered by a moving vehicle, leaving her stuck inside the property while hundreds of bees continued attacking.

The storage facility owner eventually spotted what was happening and remotely opened the gate, allowing Kelly-McKee to escape.

By then, emergency crews were racing to the scene.

Aransas County Sheriff’s Deputy Will Newsom responded alongside members of the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department and quickly realized Kelly-McKee was in serious danger.

“My plan was to roll up and get her into the back compartment of my car and then extricate her from the scene and move her down to Lamar Fire Station, where we could get medical attention,” Newsom said.

The deputy grabbed a hose and began blasting Kelly-McKee with water in an effort to knock the bees off her body.

His fast response may have saved her life.

Kelly-McKee was ultimately stung more than 300 times.

“I mean, one bee sting can be fatal to some people,” Newsom said. “She took over 300 stings, which is definitely in the fatal range.”

The deputy said he knew they had very little time to get her away from the swarm and into medical care.

The attack was particularly frightening because Kelly-McKee had only recently recovered from a fractured spine about four months earlier.

Africanized honeybees, often referred to as “killer bees,” are known for being far more defensive than typical European honeybees.

According to the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, the bees can attack in large numbers when their colony is disturbed and may chase a perceived threat for as far as a quarter-mile.

Despite her horrifying ordeal, Kelly-McKee said she is not interested in blaming anyone.

Instead, she hopes her experience serves as a warning to others about just how quickly a seemingly harmless encounter with bees can turn dangerous.

What started as an ordinary outing with her dog became a frantic fight to escape a swarm of hundreds — and one that Kelly-McKee was fortunate to survive.