Firefighters save Massachusetts girl from rabid skunk attack during family BBQ – New York Post

A rabid skunk went wild in a Boston-blueprint backyard this week, sinking its teeth into a disquieted 2-one year-feeble girl and attacking firefighters who tried to battle it with a fireplace extinguisher, according to reports.

Fatima Elkhouly and her mom, Mai, who hail from Egypt, had by no manner seen a skunk sooner than when the sick woodland creature viciously charged at them in Weymouth, Mass., on Tuesday, according to WFXT TV.

“The kids had been taking half in within the yard and impulsively, Adam screamed and mentioned there’s a skunk and I scrutinize and I observed there was a skunk,” the mom told the effect, referring to another household member.

The girl’s grandmother, Betty Bennette, told WCVB the erratic animal latched onto her granddaughter’s leg sooner than the girl’s mother might presumably even react.

“It gave the look of a customary skunk, except it was no longer performing like a customary skunk,” she mentioned.

“I observed Mai attain in and swoop in, and Mai picked up the toddler and was screaming and kicking it and combating it,” Bennette recalled. “Till at closing she had the toddler up and the skunk was hanging from the toddler’s leg and at closing the skunk let slide and dropped.”

The frenzied skunk then attacked responding firefighters.

“They had been spraying it within the face, and it would act skittish,” Bennette told WFXT.

After using the animal away with the extinguisher, they killed it with a shovel shut to a shed because it was most likely rabid, according to reports.

Animal administration officers in Weymouth later confirmed it had rabies, Bennette told the effect.

She’s now disquieted what other critters nearby might presumably need the doubtlessly lethal virus.

“Where’s the various skunks it hangs out with?” Bennette asked. “What else is around right here that can presumably need rabies?”

The girl, within the period in-between, was treated at a sanatorium Monday for bites and scratches to her legs and hand, nonetheless is expected to enhance after four therapies for rabies prevention, the Boston Globe reports.