Telangana: Careless smoking caused maximum fire accidents last year Of the total 7899 fire accidents reported, human negligence of throwing still burning cigarette butts dominated maximum cases. By News Desk| Published: 14th April 2021 2:44 pm IST Fire Accident in city (Representational Image) Hyderabad: As many as 4187 fire accidents reported in Telangana last year were caused due to careless smoking, the state fire services department said. Of the total 7899 fire accidents reported, while the human negligence of throwing still burning cigarette butts dominated maximum cases, those caused due to electrical short circuit stood at 1992. The other causes of the fire were found to be faulty chimney in companies, gas coal furnace, arson, spontaneous combustion, oven stoves and mechanical heat/sparks.