A call about a breaking news story turned into a proposal for an Alabama news reporter.

ABC 33/40 in Birmingham recently posted a video from chief photographer Bill Castle showing on-air reporter Valerie Bell responding to reports of a vehicle in water.

Bell arrives at the scene and begins to question officials and asks if it’s OK if she takes some notes. She’s told that’s fine but before she does, she is asked to turn around and told she “might like this one thing right behind you.”

That’s when she sees her boyfriend Blake Bjornson, a firefighter, down on one knee with a ring box in hand. He pops the question, she tearfully accepts and the entire scene is caught on camera. According to 33/40 Bjornson enlisted some friends from the Pell City Police Department to pull off the proposal.