A rabid skunk went wild in a Boston-area backyard this week, sinking its teeth into a terrified 2-year-old girl and attacking firefighters who tried to battle it with a fire extinguisher, according to reports.

Fatima Elkhouly and her mom, Mai, who hail from Egypt, had never seen a skunk before when the ailing woodland creature viciously charged at them in Weymouth, Mass., on Tuesday, according to WFXT TV.

“The children were playing in the yard and all of a sudden, Adam screamed and said there’s a skunk and I look and I saw there was a skunk,” the mom told the station, referring to another family member.

The girl’s grandmother, Betty Bennette, told WCVB the erratic animal latched onto her granddaughter’s leg before the girl’s mother could even react.

“It looked like a normal skunk, except it was not acting like a normal skunk,” she said.

“I saw Mai come in and swoop in, and Mai picked up the baby and was screaming and kicking it and fighting it,” Bennette recalled. “Until finally she had the baby up and the skunk was hanging from the baby’s leg and finally the skunk let go and dropped.”

The frenzied skunk then attacked responding firefighters.

“They were spraying it in the face, and it would act stunned,” Bennette told WFXT.

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

Animal control officers in Weymouth later confirmed it had rabies, Bennette told the station.

She’s now worried what other critters nearby might have the potentially deadly virus.

“Where’s the other skunks it hangs out with?” Bennette asked. “What else is around here that might have rabies?”

The girl, meanwhile, was treated at a hospital Monday for bites and scratches to her legs and hand, but is expected to recover after four treatments for rabies prevention, the Boston Globe reports.