根据北京市消防局通报，央视新址工地火灾系业主单位不听治安民警劝阻，执意违法燃放烟花造成的。9日晚，中央电视台雇用湖南某烟花公司，擅自在失火大楼西南角空地燃放数百枚礼花弹，这些礼花弹属A类烟花，燃放须经北京市政府批准。10日，央视在其官方网站上发表致歉声明。

　　China Central Television (CCTV) itself was responsible for Monday night's massive fire that caused one death and seven injuries in its new headquarters complex in eastern Beijing, the city's fire control authorities said Tuesday.

　　CCTV hired staff from a fireworks company to ignite several hundred large festive firecrackers in an open space outside one of its nearly-completed buildings, said Luo Yuan, spokesman and deputy chief of Beijing Fire Control Bureau.

　　The 30-storey building, about 200 meters from the iconic CCTV tower, houses the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a television studio and an electronic data processing center.