Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaBalod is the headquarters of Balod district in Chhattisgarh, about 58 km from Durg and 44 km from Dhamtari. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the district hospital line and the main local risks on one page, starting with the bus fire near Malighori on 2 November 2026.
Checked 3 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Single emergency number. Works from any phone · 112: No separate fire number is printed for the district, so call 112 for the fire brigade · 108: Ambulance 108 and 102 are both listed for the district. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police number printed on the district portal. If it does not connect, call 112
Print the Balod 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 Balod 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 3 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
At about 8 pm on 2 November 2026, a passenger bus from Rajnandgaon to Balod caught fire near Malighori village. Reports said firecrackers worth over Rs 1 lakh were on board and went off for about half an hour. All passengers got out and no injury was reported. The cause is not established, as we cover in a case study.
Firecrackers are explosives. A bus has one or two doors, and a fire with crackers on board means rockets and blasts reach people standing outside too. Do not carry crackers, petrol or gas cylinders as a favour for someone, and tell the conductor if you see cartons that look like crackers being loaded.
The Tandula river runs along the bank of Balod town, and the Tandula dam, built in 1912, adjoins the district headquarters. Average rainfall is about 1,090 mm, and about 93 percent of it falls between June and September, so the monsoon is the season to watch the water.
The district portal prints no fire station list or fire number. Nine urban bodies are listed, two Nagar Palikas (Balod and Dalli Rajhara) and seven Nagar Panchayats, with no fire contact. Save 112 and tell the caller the village, the road and the nearest landmark.
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