WATERFORD - An adorable little girl is alive, thanks to a Waterford police officer. The toddler fell into a kiddie pool and was turning blue. Her father started CPR, but an off-duty police officer took over and saved the girl's life. The girl's parents are calling their daughter's survival a miracle. She wasn't breathing for several minutes, but help from a neighbor, who is a police officer, saved her life. Nineteen month old Ava Walters is a typical toddler. She sucks her thumb and plays with her older sister, but the fact that she's able to do that is anything but typical. Just two days ago, she fell into a kiddie pool and stopped breathing. "For me it was the worse possible experience you could ever imagine. When my sister pulled her out of the water she was blue,” Sean Walters said. Sean immediately started doing CPR, but was panicking. His sister ran next door to get help from off-duty Waterford police officer Jimmy Hecht, who took over. "All of the sudden she made a few gasps and she started to cough, then she started to cry. It was a pretty wonderful thing,” Hecht said. Paramedics rushed little Ava to the hospital, but her parents still didn't know if she would survive. "I just felt pure and utter horror. I can't describe it any other way. I thought I lost her,” Heather Walters said. The Walters want to use their experience to remind other parents how important is to constantly watch little ones around water. "She was literally dying, right while we were talking, 7, 8 feet from us. It was terrible. No sound, nothing. You have to be so careful,” Sean Walters said. Heather can't thank Jimmy enough for saving Ava, but believes divine intervention played a role. "I was just thanking God. He did a miracle in our lives,” Heather Walters said. Officer Hecht estimates he did CPR for about five minutes before Ava started breathing and he got a pulse, but he says, those five minutes, when he was working to save her life, felt like an eternity.