A meteorologist sprang into action after spotting a woman stuck in floodwaters caused by Hurricane Helene.

Fox Weather’s Bob Van Dillen was covering the storm near Atlanta before sunrise on Friday, Sept. 27, when he heard a woman yell for help near Peach Tree Creek, according to the outlet.

Van Dillen, who was doing a live shot at the time, “put the microphone down and called 911” after spotting the woman in distress. Her cries for help could be heard in the footage shared by Fox Weather.

After waiting five minutes, Van Dillen took matters into his own hands and entered the chest-deep water. The meteorologist, who is from the area where the rescue occurred, said he simply “couldn’t wait anymore.”

“She was getting panicked a little bit more because the water was coming up a little bit higher,” he added.

Eventually, Van Dillen was able to grab the woman and carry her to safety. The footage shared by the outlet showed the water over the hood of the woman’s car as she was carried away.

The woman who was rescued is okay, according to Van Dillen, who put her in a car and gave her a shirt after helping her escape the floodwaters.

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The woman’s husband arrived to pick her up a short time later, and Fox Weather captured the moment the two were reunited.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” her husband said while shaking Van Dillen’s hand.

At least 20 people died, including 11 in Georgia, in connection to Helene, which made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend area of Florida late Thursday.

In just a matter of hours, the storm delivered damaging wind gusts as well as “catastrophic, life-threatening, [and] record-breaking” flooding in many areas, especially the higher terrains of the southeastern Appalachians, where “numerous significant landslides” are also expected through Friday, Sept. 27.