WATCH: Minnesota Fire Chief Rescues Suicidal Teen Trying To Jump Off Bridge

The fire chief of St. Paul District, Minnesota, saved a girl who was about to jump from a bridge into the Mississippi River on Tuesday.

Fire Chief Conrad Ertz said when he saw the girl on the edge of Robert Street Bridge his "heart went out to her immediately."

A passerby called 911 when he saw the girl, believed to be in her teens, climbing over the railing of the bridge and sit on the concrete barrier overlooking the river 120 feet below her, apparently contemplating to jump.

Ertz gestured to the two policemen, who were already at the scene, as he slowly approached the girl from behind. Eventually he engulfed the girl in a bear hug as the two officers distracted her by telling her there were people who cared about her.

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The rescue was captured on a phone camera by a passerby named Matthew Seaton, who posted it on his Facebook account.

“Pretty sure I just witnessed the Saint Paul Fire Chief save a life, thank you Conrad Ertz!!” Seaton said in a message posted along with the video.

Throughout the episode, one of the officers named Len Wall kept reporting the situation as it unfolded through his radio in a hushed voice.

“She’s on the other side of the railing now,” he said. “We’re trying to talk her out of it.”

The other officer, Shawn Longen, spoke to the girl, trying to persuade her to get off the barrier.

"She said she didn't feel like anyone loved her," officer Longen told Star Tribune. "I assured here there were people who loved her and if they were there they would be doing everything they could to get her to come to the other side of the railing — which is what I wanted her to do — to come over and talk to us about what was going on."

Officer Longen also spoke to the girl later after she was taken to a hospital. "Shared some personal experiences with her and tried to give her some hope," he said.

Ertz, a 20-year veteran of the department, said he had been to “a handful” of suicide attempts, where officers had tried to save people who were attempting to jump from a bridge or a building.

“Quite honestly, most [rescues] have not been so successful,” he said. “So this is very special.”

"What was going through my mind was I wanted this to end in a positive light so this individual had a second chance," Ertz said. "I did not want this to end like I've seen before," he told Fox9.

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Ertz was not aware that Seaton was recording the entire scene on his phone. He only got to know about it after getting back to the fire station, where one of his colleagues showed him the video.

This is not the first time that officers Wall and Longen, who are partners on patrol, were a part of a bridge rescue.

In 2011, they received the department’s Lifesaving Award after they helped another officer and a passersby rescue a woman from the Wabasha Street Bridge.

Longen mentioned that such rescues do not start usually with firefighters or police officers.

“It starts with people in those areas who are looking out for people in crisis and call for help,” he said.

Ertz doesn’t have a Facebook account but said that he was hearing about the video from friends and other people across the country. “In the fire department and the police department, these little things happen every day,” said Ertz.

“I’ve been witness to unbelievable saves and moments when people are at their worst and we come in there and we literally, for that moment, we can stop it or change that moment and that’s the moment that counts,” he added, Pioneer Press in Minneapolis reported.