Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaChhapra, also written Chapra, is the headquarters town of Saran district in Bihar, near where the Ghaghra meets the Ganga. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district.
Checked 28 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Police emergency number listed on the district portal · 101: Fire number listed on the district portal. If it does not connect, call 112 · 102: Ambulance number listed on the district portal. If it does not connect, call 112 · 112: Listed for the district as the police number
Print the Chhapra 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 Chhapra 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 28 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the night of 27 October 2026 a truck hit a tempo near Bhainsmara in Garkha, on the Chhapra to Muzaffarpur road. Four of the six people aboard died, including a family returning home from a wedding by train, and we cover it in a case study.
On 2 October 2026 the swollen Gandak broke embankments and flooded new areas of Saran, and 12 NDRF and 7 SDRF teams were sent in. The district disaster page says the 2020 floods reached 615 villages in 10 blocks.
In December 2022 a spurious liquor tragedy in the Chhapra area killed dozens, with early reports of 39 deaths and later ones higher. Illicit liquor can contain poison, so never drink it and take anyone with vomiting, blurred vision or collapse to a hospital at once.
The district disaster page puts Saran in seismic zone IV and names the 1934 earthquake as the worst on record, with later ones in 1988 and 2015. Older brick and unreinforced buildings in tight lanes are the main worry.
The district page says fires are mostly local but hit villages hard, and no fire station list could be found for the district. Keep water and sand at home, store fuel and straw away from the kitchen, and give a clear landmark when you ring 112.
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