Gregg Sergeant and his crew ran to the building, and quickly scaled a fence as bystanders shouted "Don't do it!" and "Don't jump!" while waiting for authorities.
The stuntmen located a security guard who let them into the apartment. The woman, facing outward from her balcony, did not hear the men approach.
"She was hanging on with one hand, and had one foot off the ledge," stuntman Amos Carver told KERO. "She was ready to go," Sergeant said.
Sergeant quickly wrapped her in a bear hug while Carver and Scott Schecter rushed from behind. Carver was already wearing scaffolding rigging, which aided the rescue. "It was just real easy to grab something off and throw it around her and yank her entirely back in," Carver said.
"I hooked my arms underneath her leg and we pulled her back in and carried her into the room and laid her on the couch," said Schecter.
"If we're saving somebody, it's a situation we constructed in such a way that they're out on the edge of life or death intentionally to get a certain shot [IN A FILM], and we swoop in. But those are people that are expecting this."
Police arrived just after the rescue, and said the woman was distraught over a recent breakup, and had been drinking.
"I was just so thankful we got there when we got there. I think if we'd been there two seconds later, she would've been gone," Sergeant said.
