This is the moment firefighters rescue a 24-year-old man who fell from the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building.

Newsflash obtained the footage from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan, along with a short statement according to which the incident took place in the city of Sumgayit, Azerbaijan.

The man, later identified as Nahid Eyvaz Hasanov, 24, rendered himself helpless after accidentally falling off the balcony of his fourth-floor apartment.

Emergency services arrived promptly at the scene and found Nahid sitting helplessly on the extension part of the apartment on the second floor, where he fell..

The footage shows rescuers trying to reach Nahid using rescue tools and an auto-ladder.

Firefighters managed to safely bring Nahind down before they handed him over to the emergency medical team for treatment.