Heart-stopping moment cops climb into burning home to save mom

The heart-stopping moment Minnesota officers climbed through the window of a burning home to save an elderly mother was captured on bodycam footage.

Just 30 minutes before two officers were set to finish their quiet shift last week, a call came into the dispatch radio - a woman trapped in a house fire in a St. Paul home.

Dramatic video footage showed the moments Sergeant Michael Dahl and Officer Aaron Schmidt rushed to the scene and were met with flames shooting out the front windows of the home.

Dahl was captured as he forced his way through a kitchen door and screamed for the person in the home to answer - all while dark smoke filled the air causing him to continuously cough before he was ordered to back away and find a different entryway.

But the officers were then able to locate a window where they saw an elderly mother inside her bedroom with no way to get out.

'I looked over and heard her say "Fire... I'm scared,"' Schmidt told Local 12.

The frightening footage captured one of the officers ripping the curtain off the frame before he was hoisted up through the window with the help of the other officer - where he then picked the woman up as she clung to his shoulders and guided her out of her home and to safety.

Don Novack, the woman's son, said that his mother believed that she would die in the scorching flames - but luckily, she survived and was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and burns.

'I'll never forget, I'll always play it back in my mind,' Schmidt told KSTP. 'That feeling when we were able to find her and get her out of that room.'