Woman's life saved by stunt men seconds before she jumped to her death.

It looked like a scene from a superhero movie.

Three professional stunt men put their skills to good use by stopping a drunk and heartbroken woman from jumping off the 14th-floor balcony of a Californian apartment complex on Thursday. 

The 'Kick-Ass 2' stunt men, in San Diego for Comic-Con, were putting up scaffolding for a movie premiere party on Eighth Avenue when they saw the woman hanging from the edge of The Mark condominium building balcony opposite them. 

As witnesses below yelled out to the woman not to jump, the experienced stunt men sprang into action.

Stunt 911's Gregg Sergeant, Scott Schecter and Amos Carver ran to the building, scaled a fence and alerted a security guard who took them upstairs.

'[We] burst into the room and she was on the patio. She'd even closed the door so we couldn't get to her,' Sergeant, owner and stunt coordinator for Los Angeles-based Stunts 911 - Action Sequence Technologies, said.

Without her noticing, Sergeant crept up behind the unidentified woman and locked her in a bear hug.  

Schecter and Carver, who was wearing scaffolding rigging, rushed in behind him.

'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, and she was very upset,' Schecter told  23ABC News.

Carver threw the rigging around the woman and helped to hoist her over the ledge to safety.

Sergeant said he and his crew arrived just in time.

'I was just so thankful we got there when we got there,' he said.

'I think if we'd been there two seconds later, she would've been gone.'

The stunt man said he and his crew did not see themselves as heroes.

'It’s what we do every day for stunts. It happened so fast and we just responded,' he
told U-T San Diego.

'When police came, we left. Everybody’s OK - that’s the important thing.'

Please let's stand against suicide, it's never the answer.