Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaCuttack is a Mahanadi city in Odisha with the Mundali barrage just upstream, a large government hospital and crowded markets, and this guide also covers the villages of Mahanga block to its east. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the fire stations listed by the municipal corporation and the main local risks on one page, with a hospital fire, a flood alert, a market fire and a village pond drowning as dated examples.
Checked 4 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Odisha lists 112 for police and for fire. Works from any phone · 108: Emergency ambulance. If it does not connect, call 112 · 102: Odisha also lists 102 as an ambulance number
Print the Cuttack 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 4 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
At about 3 am on 16 March 2026, a fire broke out on the first floor of the Trauma Care Centre of SCB Medical College and Hospital. The Chief Minister said ten people died, most of them ICU patients, and around eleven staff were burnt while moving patients out. A short circuit was suspected, and patients were shifted to other wards, including the New Medicine ICU.
On 29 September 2026, with 26 Hirakud gates open, the discharge at Mundali near Cuttack was about 8 lakh cusecs and was being watched closely. The Water Resources Department warned of water entering low-lying parts of Cuttack, Khordha, Puri, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts. Keep off riverbanks, low roads and embankments when such an alert is out.
In the early hours of 1 June 2026 a fire swept through a fish market and warehouse near Press Chhak. Five fire tenders and 35 firefighters worked for more than four hours, five shops were gutted, and paint and chemicals in a neighbouring shop fed the flames. The cause was not known, and no injuries were reported.
On the morning of 1 November 2026, three small boys drowned in a village pond in Mahanga block while plucking water lilies. They were pulled out and taken to hospital, where doctors declared them dead; the post-mortem was awaited. Read our case study for what is known so far.
6 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Cuttack Fire Station | Cuttack · Bepari Sahi, Buxi Bazaar, Cuttack 753001 | Call 101 |
| Buxi Bazar Fire Station | Cuttack · Police Colony, Buxi Bazaar, Cuttack 753001 | Call 101 |
| Fire Station, Mahanadi Vihar | Cuttack · Mahanadi Vihar, Cuttack 753004 | Call 101 |
| Fire Brigade Office | Cuttack · Naya Bazaar Road, Nuasahi, New Sai Colony, Cuttack 753010 | Call 101 |
| Fire Station, SCB Medical College Hospital | Cuttack · Old Railway Station Road, Professors Colony, Cuttack 753003 | Call 101 |
| Abhinab Bidanasi Fire Station | Cuttack · CDA area, Cuttack 753014 | Call 101 |
Six fire stations and offices with addresses, as printed by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (the list is undated and carries no phone numbers), checked on 4 November 2026. In an emergency, call 112 first; the fire service will tell you which station is nearest.
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