The highly shared image on Facebook shows the firefighters pushing the woman up a slick hill in Maryland Heights, Missouri, on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019.

(Facebook/SSM Health DePaul Hospital – St. Louis)

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Two St. Louis-area firefighters pushed a woman about a mile to a hospital after she was involved in a crash.The firefighters were also involved in a crash while responding to the incident in Maryland Heights.Their heroic actions Sunday morning were shared in a Facebook post.

A pair of firefighters in a St. Louis suburb have received plenty of praise from users on the internet after they refused to give up on rescuing an injured woman – even though they had to ditch their ambulance on an icy roadway.

The two Maryland Heights firefighters were attempting to reach an injured woman who was driving an empty bus that spun out , according to KSDK.com. But as they neared the crash site, their ambulance hit a patch of ice and crashed into a guardrail, the report added.

"It was pretty bad. Even driving there we had to take it really slow," firefighter Shaylor Taetz told KSDK.

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Taetz and his partner knew they only had one chance to get the woman to nearby SSM Health DePaul Hospital: they were going to have to push her, on a stretcher, about a mile. It was not an easy task – several hills were between the crash site and the hospital, and Taetz told KSDK that the stretcher slipped several times on the ice.

But they were able to get the woman to the hospital, where she was examined and it was determined that she wasn't seriously injured in the crash, KSDK also reported.

News of the woman's rescue was first posted , along with an image that has been shared more than 3,000 times.

The icy roads caused numerous crashes all across Missouri over the weekend. According to the Associated Press, 55-year-old Sweet Springs resident Sherri Jones died Sunday afternoon when her SUV slid off the road and flipped over along Missouri Highway 127 in Saline County. In St. Charles County, several police officers were also involved in crashes, though none were seriously injured, the AP reported via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.