A Suffolk woman is being hailed as a hero after she jumped into action to save a man who had fallen into Poospatuck Creek off of Mastic Beach.

The woman says it started around 12:30 p.m. Thursday when a man tried riding a jet ski on a semi-frozen part of the creek.

Kayla Masotto, of Mastic Beach, says she was sitting in her living room watching TV when she saw the man on the ice. She ran out and asked if he needed help, but he told her he was OK.

Not long after, the jet ski started to smoke and then sank, sending the man into the freezing water.

"I ended up running to my basement, grabbing my paddleboard and ran out and saw how far I could run on the ice,” Masotto said. "I just had to do what I could to try to help this man. There was no time to think honestly. It was just kind of adrenaline."

Masotto’s sister started recording when she ran onto the ice with her paddleboard.

"I was just thinking, I need to get to him as fast as I can. The water is freezing,” Masotto said.

Masotto pulled the man onto the front of her paddleboard when she got to him.

"He had let me know that his fingers weren't working. His legs were numb, his hands were numb,” said Masotto.

Men at a nearby marina threw a rope over. The man was then pulled to shore on a rope right as Mastic Fire and EMS arrived.

Mastic Fire Department Chief Steven Januszkiewicz credits Masotto with saving the man’s life in a situation where seconds count.

"She just sprung into action and did what she had to do and thank God, because in this kind of situation, time matters,” he said. “The quicker you can get them out of the water, the better chance of survival they'll have."

Masotto, still in disbelief over what she did, says she just wanted to make sure that man could return home to his family.

"That's someone's son. That's someone's brother. That's maybe someone's dad and I would hope that if it was my family member out there, that someone would do the same,” she said.

Mastic EMS tells News 12 that the man was in the early stages of hypothermia when he got out of the water. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.