A 3-year-old girl survives a harrowing ordeal [Video]

LEBANON, Tenn. (WTVF) — A three-year-old girl is alive after a harrowing rescue. She had wandered off and fallen into a quarry full of water.

There was a frantic search and with just seconds to spare, and a hero stepped in to save her from drowning.

This would be a horrible scenario for any parent.

A young child manages to escape a baby gate, unlock the front door and disappears with a flooded quarry nearby.

Parents and neighbors frantically searched the area — including parts of the quarry.

That’s when Kevin Wolverton Sr. stopped as he left work at nearby Wilson County Chevrolet in Lebanon and decided he’d take a closer look at the quarry.

“When I come down I walked through here and on the other side of those rocks there she was floating on her side. I went in and got her to flat rocks and laid her down and did CPR and rolled her on her …