Body camera footage captured the moment a New Jersey State Police officer ran into a burning apartment and rescued an elderly man who was trapped inside, the Evesham Police Department said in a press release Monday.

The police press release Officer Kevin Long arrived on the scene before firefighters at around 4 p.m. on June 16 and rushed into the burning apartment under “extremely dangerous conditions” to rescue an elderly man who was trapped inside.

video Long can be seen running toward the apartment, saying, “The smoke is terrible! The smoke is terrible!”

As officers walked through the front door, they could be heard yelling, “Hey! Are you OK? Are you OK?” (RELATED: 'It's Too Hot': Video shows police frantically trying to free 11-year-old boy from raging fire)

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Officers were able to remove the woman from the apartment and she can be heard saying, “That's my husband!”

Officer Long says, “I can't see anything…I can't go in. The smoke is too much,” as he spots the woman's elderly husband, who is sitting in a chair and tells Long, “I can't walk.”

Mr Long then frantically cleared a path to the man, carried his wheelchair out of the house and prevented his wife from re-entering the burning apartment, before racing back inside and dragging the elderly man, still in his wheelchair, to safety.

Evesham Police Chief Walt Miller Fox 29 Officer Long said,“We were confronted with a lot of smoke and couldn't see what was going on, but luckily we were able to make contact with the male and get him out of the residence.”

Miller added that Long prevented the man's wife from re-entering the apartment.

“If he hadn't gotten there right away, his wife would have been in the home with him and they would have both died from the smoke very quickly, so he saved two lives that day,” the chief told FOX 29.

The couple was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and Long was treated for smoke inhalation and released, according to the press release.

Evesham firefighters arrived on scene within six minutes and were able to contain the fire to the kitchen, according to a press release.

FOX29 reported that police said the fire was caused by unattended cooking in the kitchen.