Dramatic video shows the moment a doctor in Tampa dashes to the aid of a panicked woman whose dog is being strangled by an elevator in his apartment building.

Mohammed Awad is seen on security camera footage, aired by WTSP News in Tampa Bay, walking into the lobby of the Olympus Harbor Island Apartments Sunday holding a package just as the dog’s leash gets caught in the closing elevator doors.

The dog is yanked up by the collar and begins choking as the frantic woman tries to free the canine from the elevator’s clutches. Awad drops his package and rushes to help the woman.

“I’m busy trying to break the leash away from the dog’s neck,” Awad told the outlet. “You can see in the video, my first try, I couldn’t get it. I basically looked up, all in one second, I said, ‘I can’t get it. It’s too hard. I’m going to try it one more time, give it everything I had.'”

“I jumped up again and I basically, last minute, got it,” he said. “The dog basically had one or two seconds left.”

The dog is seen falling to the ground and scampering off inside the lobby.

The woman was not identified, and Awad said he hasn’t run into her since the incident.

But the good deed didn’t go unnoticed. On Monday, his brother, Faris Awad, posted the surveillance footage on Facebook with the simple message, “My Brother saved a dogs life.”