Girl OK after bank vault ordeal
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February 27, 2011, Sunday
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A 14-month-old girl who wandered away from her mother and grandmother spent several tense hours trapped inside a time-locked bank vault and authorities pumped fresh air through vents to the crying child until a locksmith freed her, police in the US state of Georgia said.
The locksmith pried the toddler unharmed from the vault on Friday night about four hours later. She went missing while visiting a grandparent who worked at a Wells Fargo bank branch in the greater Atlanta suburb of Conyers, police said.
Authorities say police and firefighters couldn't free the toddler and feverishly summoned the locksmith after the child apparently strayed into the open vault as the bank was closing - before an employee shut the vault door for the day.
Conyers Police Chief Gene Wilson told a local paper it was a "very tense scene" as authorities stood by along with the relatives, and rescue workers pumped fresh air into vents leading to the vault.
The child was spotted on security cameras inside the vault, Wilson said. He added that the locksmith used a large drill to breach the vault.
Wilson said the girl was fine except for needing a diaper change.
The locksmith pried the toddler unharmed from the vault on Friday night about four hours later. She went missing while visiting a grandparent who worked at a Wells Fargo bank branch in the greater Atlanta suburb of Conyers, police said.
Authorities say police and firefighters couldn't free the toddler and feverishly summoned the locksmith after the child apparently strayed into the open vault as the bank was closing - before an employee shut the vault door for the day.
Conyers Police Chief Gene Wilson told a local paper it was a "very tense scene" as authorities stood by along with the relatives, and rescue workers pumped fresh air into vents leading to the vault.
The child was spotted on security cameras inside the vault, Wilson said. He added that the locksmith used a large drill to breach the vault.
Wilson said the girl was fine except for needing a diaper change.
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