From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
A 7-year-old boy was bitten on the toe by a copperhead Thursday while playing in the front yard of a Hoover home.
The boy’s family rushed the child to a nearby fire station. From there, he was taken to Children’s of Alabama. He is is stable condition.
The family from elsewhere was staying with friends in Hoover.
Robinson wrote the boy is the second child bitten by a copperhead in the Birmingham area in just over a week.
Last week, a Mountain Brook girl, Anna Claire Pledger, 8, was twice bitten by a copperhead as she directed her younger siblings to run to safety.
While copperheads are poisonous, they are the least venomous snake in Alabama, according to the website for Children’s of Alabama.
27 Comments
Gwen Lackey
Praying for this child and families
Kimberly Jones Holland
Darby Holland
Doris Franklin
Prayers for that sweet child.
Matthew Cherry
My prayers sent up to this kid.
If I see a snake it will be shot.
Rita Morgan
Bless this child praying it is going to be ok
Ned Johnston
They love Ivy.
Jeannean Toson Knight
Wow praying for the child !! Hope they killed snake
Traci Biggs
So sad
Drake Riley
Bethany Serafin Riley
Annette Stansell
Per article a young girl from Mtn Brook was biten twice by a rattler last week as she & her syblings were walking.
Diana Dimon Dwyer
Praying for this child.
Briana Moore
It is starting the season for them – they love fall which is very unfortunate given their “fall leaf color”. :/ Kelly Robertson ~ how close is this to the wooded area you mentioned them clearing a month or so ago?
Janice Gafnea Gallagher
That’s a BIG snake!
Emmett Haislip
I always heard that they get worse in the fall. Don’t know if true or not.
Marie Stewart Stewart
Joanna Stewart Giles, Rachel Shaddix
Kelly Robertson
It sounds really close to where they have been clearing thick brush in the last couple of months which could have stirred up the snakes homes. We had a very small one in our front yard as well and it sounds like we are likely in the same neighborhood as this boy.
Pamela Nichols Black
I HATE snakes!
Bethany Serafin Riley
Hoover sure does have it 🙄
Judy Ping
Prayers
Lori Chandler Pruitt
In the South, every season is snake season…UGH UGH
Linda Rusk Maxey
Amanda Maxey Ingram
Alicia Thorn Chambless
That’s not the actual one that bit the child. The mother posted a picture. It was much smaller but still very dangerous.
Wendy Baker
This is so scary
Joann Tipton Lawrence
Sending prayers
Lisa Clifton Temple
Jonathan Temple. We need to check our yard before the kids play tomorrow night
Jimmy Vaughan
Please watch the kids ,there are many places in Trussville for these snakes !!!!
Jimmy Vaughan
PLEASE DO ,SNAKE MOVE AROUND AT NIGHT ALSO !