An Ohio firefighter proposed to his girlfriend in front of her students and staff at a school, where she works as a counselor.

The 27-year-old woman thought her boyfriend of six months was there for a fire drill, until she saw a sign on the fire truck: 'Miss Z, will you marry me?'

She said that she was so excited and surprised that she almost passed out before she could whisper: ‘Yes!’

Her boyfriend says that he was volunteering for the fire department by passing out water at a school walk-a-thon when he first met his new fiance’.

He confessed he instantly knew she was the one, and vowed to give her a special proposal.

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