Hyderabad: The Telangana State Disaster Response and Fire Services Department in its annual report for the year 2022 stated that the state saw 3969 fire accidents due to ‘careless smoking’.
Fires of electrical origin, due to gas coal furnaces, chimneys, arson, spontaneous combustion, due to oven stoves/ open fires and fires due to mechanical heat/sparks top the list consecutively.
The Department stated that in 2022, it has responded to 104 serious, 135 medium, 7129 small and 574 rescue and emergency calls, making it a total of 7942 calls in the year 2022, which is 718 calls more than in 2021.
The department also said that 45 lives have been lost in these accidents and property damage worth Rs 212.36 cr has occurred. On the other hand, 213 lives were saved and Rs 723.14 cr worth of property was saved from destruction, the department said.
In 2022, the fire safety department conducted a total of 103 fire safety awareness programmes and mock drills to sensitize citizens about fire prevention and safety.
The Department strongly appealed to all the citizens to adopt the best possible fire precautions and fire safety measures and thereby save ‘precious human lives and national wealth’. It also asked people to call fire Services by dialling ‘101’ in case of fire accidents.
