2 Year Old Nearly Drowns In Pool

A two year old child falls in a backyard pool and nearly drowns today.

The accident happened in the Birchwood neighborhood, just off Highway 60 in Hamilton County.

The Sheriff's Department says the little girl disappeared for ten or fifteen minutes and when the child's mom finally found her, she was floating in the pool. But neighbors say thanks to a family friend tragedy quickly turned into a miracle.

Lifeforce races to help a two year old girl after a potentially life threatening accident.

The Sheriff's Department received a call around 10 AM saying the child's mom found her floating face up in this pool behind their house in the Birchwood area. We're told the child wasn't breathing.

"I'm sure that she was frantic and the friend that was staying at the house came out and performed C.P.R. on the child which did revive the child," Dusty Stokes, with the Sheriff's Department, says.

Public Information Officer Dusty Stokes says at that point paramedics called Lifeforce which flew the child to TC Thompson. He says the girl was talking and carrying on before getting onto the helicopter.

"She's just my little buddy and I hope that everything is going to be alright you know nothing permanent," Gail Clark says.

Gail Clark lives next to the two year old's home and says the little girl's a charmer, always has a smile on her face, and Clark says her parents keep a close eye on her.

"I know that they just look after her so well when she is out and she likes to get about and all but they are such good parents to that child," Clark says.

A child that the Sheriff's Department says received a second chance at life thanks to a family friend in the right place, at the right time.

"You know god works in mysterious ways and it might have been that there was somebody who could do something like that was here at that very moment," Clark says.

The Sheriff's Department says no charges will be filed against the parents - they tell us this was simply a bad accident.