A toddler's trip to the bank took a scary turn on Friday when she wandered into the vault and got trapped for four hours.
Cops and firefighters could not open the time-locked vault, but a locksmith wielding a large drill saved the day and eventually rescued the sobbing 14-month-old girl, police in Conyers, Georgia said.
The tot emerged from the vault unharmed and she was whisked away in blankets by her mother and grandmother, who works at the Wells Fargo bank.
Ron Snively, the self-described "safe technician" who opened the vault said the girl "was scared because of the drilling noise."
"Once I heard her crying I knew everything was okay, it was just a matter of time," he told WXIA-TV.
Police said the little girl drifted away as her grandmother closed up the bank. The vault's steel doors snapped shut behind her.
Surveillance cameras showed the girl crying and rescuers pumping air into the vault.
Police Chief Gene Wilson described the ordeal as a "very tense scene," but that all the girl needed when she was rescued was a diaper change.
"That was one of the better moments I've ever witnessed," Wilson said.
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