WESTVILLE — A first-grade student and a teacher’s aide from Bonifay Elementary School were bitten by a fox during a field trip Thursday.
BES’s entire first grade class was at a park in Westville for the field trip. Around 11:30 a.m., an animal identified so far as a fox approached a student and bit him on the foot or leg. Teacher’s aide Jodi Richardson quickly intervened and was bitten multiple times while saving the student.
Holmes County Superintendent Eddie Dixon said the remaining students were immediately put on busses and transported back to BES. Holmes County EMS transported Richardson and the student to Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay for treatment.
The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office is still working with Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission to find and trap the fox.
“She was a real hero,” Dixon said of Richardson.