Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaAmritsar is a major city in Punjab, home to the Golden Temple, with a crowded walled city, textile units and the Ravi river along the district border. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city and the district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Listed with 100 as the police emergency number on the Amritsar district website. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as the fire number on the Amritsar district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed as the ambulance number on the district helpline page. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police number on the district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Amritsar emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers, and the Amritsar fire, disaster and civic numbers from this guide. There are blank lines for your family contacts and the nearest hospital.
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Checked 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Narrow lanes in the walled city limit how far a fire tender can go, most buildings there lack the mandatory fire safety clearance, and there are no fixed water hydrants. As of May 2025, the city had five fully functional fire stations against a norm of 24 for its size, and handled about 700 fire calls a year.
On 19 October 2018, a train from Jalandhar ran through a crowd of at least 300 people watching a Ravan effigy burn on ground beside the tracks at Joda Phatak. The Chief Minister put the toll at 59 dead and 57 hurt, and an inquiry was ordered, with the railways and the city mayor disagreeing over who was to blame.
In late August 2025, the Ravi ran in high spate and flooded villages in the Ajnala and Ramdas areas, north of the city and beyond this guide's radius. The Army, NDRF, police and civil administration carried out rescue, and a relief centre was opened at Chamyari.
The district disaster plan notes that the Golden Temple sits in the heart of the city and thousands of pilgrims visit it every day, along with Durgiana Temple and Jallianwala Bagh. On festival days those lanes fill up fast, and a stop in a narrow stretch can start a push.
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