I think most southern states have fire ants now.
I was walking to my car in 1976 in Tampa and went right into a group of them moving across the lawn. I had multiple stings until I took off my pants in my front yard right in front of my neighborhood and washed them off with a hose. (I had on under ware and didn’t care as I was in intense pain) The stings later infected and I ended up at the doc’s getting pain killers and antibiotics. Luckily for them. when I got back from the hospital, they were gone. I was set to roast the SOB’s.
rwood