Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaBalaghat is the district headquarters in the south east of Madhya Pradesh, close to the Maharashtra border, with the Wainganga river and forest roads around it. 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: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as the fire number in the state's 112 system. The Balaghat district website does not print a fire number. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Printed on the Balaghat district website · 100: The national police number, printed on other Madhya Pradesh district websites but not on the Balaghat one. If it does not connect, call 112
Print the Balaghat emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers. This guide has no local numbers yet, so there are blank lines to write your local fire station, police station and nearest hospital, and your family contacts.
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Checked 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On 15 July 2025 a 26 year old man fishing near a bridge over the flooded Wainganga was pulled about 100 metres downstream by the current. He held on to bushes until police, the state disaster force and civil defence volunteers pulled him out with a rope on the second try.
On 4 July 2026 two to three days of heavy rain made the Dev river submerge a small bridge near Bhagatpur village in Kirnapur area. Sixteen villagers who had gone to the fields were stranded, and the state disaster force, police and Hawk Force rescued all of them after several hours.
Late on a Saturday night in March 2026 a car lost control on the Baihar Malajkhand route near Keolari Chowk, fell into a pit and caught fire. Passersby broke the windows and pulled out three people, three members of the family died, and the driver was suspected of dozing off.
In June 2017 a blast at a fireworks factory in Balaghat district killed at least 25 people and injured others, some with burns and smoke inhalation. The cause was under investigation, and the case is a reminder to keep away from firecracker units and storage.
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