WATCH: Woman slams car into LACoFD car in Gardena after assaulting firefighter, police say

GARDENA, Calif. - An Inglewood woman was arrested after she was seen on video yelling and swatting at a Los Angeles County firefighter in Gardena before crashing her car into the firefighter's.

It happened around 1 p.m. Wednesday. Frank Rojas said he heard an argument outside his Gardena home before he took out his cell phone and started recording. 

In the video, the woman, who police identified as 36-year-old Jessica Chavez, was seen yelling at the firefighter. 

The Gardena Police Department said this all started when the firefighter, who handles mental health cases in the area, saw Chavez in "an altercation" with a man, and went over to help her.

In Rojas' video, the firefighter is heard saying "we're with the fire department, but we called the police." Chavez seems to get even angrier, before slapping the vehicle, and according to the Gardena Police Department, even assaulting the firefighter.

"She's hitting… the windows of the car, and then they were continuing it," Rojas said. "And then I hear the officer saying ‘Oh we’re trying to help you,' this and that, and, you know, ‘you’re making it worse.'"

That's when Rojas said Chavez got back in her car and started driving around the block repeatedly.

"She would circle around the block… at least four times," Rojas said. "And then on the fourth and final time she does this circle across the street, that's when she slams into a car. And by then they were able to arrest her."

Police said Gardena Police Detectives happened to be driving down the street as Chavez was circling the block. Officials said Chavez crashed her car into the LACoFC SUV and the undercover cop car. No one was hurt in the crash, but both official vehicles were heavily damaged.

Officers booked Chavez for assault on a firefighter, assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence.