A 64-year-old woman who was trying to bring some groceries from her car into her Brooklyn home Monday was interrupted when the sidewalk under her suddenly swallowed her up. The sidewalk caved in, and the woman found herself in a sinkhole about 5 feet by 2 feet wide and about five feet deep.

She was trapped under two large, heavy pieces of concrete and wasn't able to move until firemen arrived to help her.

"We saw that the woman was in a sitting position with a slab of the sidewalk sitting across her waist," Lt. Kevin McCabe, Ladder 170, said, according to ABC.

Fireman Jim McNulty jumped into the hole to rescue her.

"I noticed she had a pocketbook down there and bags of groceries ... I said a hell of a night to be going to get groceries and she kinda chuckled at that," he said.

After stabilizing the woman with a cervical collar and back brace, McNulty helped lift her out of the hole.

"She's in pain, she was in a lot of pain, she was hurt," he said.

She was recovering in the hospital Monday night and is expected to be fine.