Daman Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

On 5 January 2026, a fire in two neighbouring packaging companies at Dabhel, which make plastic products, spread to a third unit that was partly damaged. An electrical short circuit was the early cause, fire teams from Daman and nearby areas came with seven to eighteen tenders depending on the report, and no casualty was reported at the time.

The district disaster plan counts about 2,500 industrial units with around 60,000 workers. It names fire as the major industrial accident, with about 40 fire incidents a year and about a quarter to 30 per cent of them serious.

The Daman flood control plan says the low lying parts of the district flood when heavy rain meets large releases from the Madhuban dam and the Piparia and Sakhartoda rivers. The administration runs a flood control room at the Collectorate in the monsoon months to track dam discharge.

The district plan places Daman in a moderate damage risk zone for cyclones, with a likely top wind of 44 metres a second, and lists cyclones in the area since 1982. It stresses that cyclone warnings must reach fishermen who may be at sea.

The plan names the Makran fault, south west of Karachi, as an active fault that could cause a high magnitude undersea earthquake and a tsunami. It says Daman and Diu is prone to tsunami risk because of its coastline.