Man survives plunge failing from eighth floor to escape blaze

This is the moment people scream advice as a man hangs from the side of an apartment while an inferno engulfs the property.

Shocking footage shows the man seemingly trying to reach the flat below through an open window, but the person inside, apparently unaware that he was there, was seen hurriedly closing the windows during the blaze in Linping district of Hangzhou in Zhejiang, China.