Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaGoalpara is a district headquarters town on the south bank of the Brahmaputra in western Assam, close to the Garo hills. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the town fire station and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from Goalpara district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone101: The state's toll free fire number, applicable across Assam. If 101 does not connect, call the Goalpara fire station line below · 108: Listed as medical on the Goalpara district website · 100: Assam Police, listed on the Goalpara district website · 03663-243043: Control room for floods and other disasters, open day and night. Toll free 1077
Print the Goalpara 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 Goalpara 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 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
The district flood plan puts 511 villages as flood prone, 225 of them high or very high, and 75 villages as already flood eroded. Low land along the Brahmaputra and beside the beels floods in moderate to severe form each monsoon.
On 22 September 2014, 368.6 mm of rain fell after days of downpour over the Garo hills, and the Dudhnoi and Krishnai rivers overtopped their bunds near Mornoi, Sarapara, Upartola and Damas. Villages were hit hard and the railway track was breached; an earlier flash flood came in October 2004.
On the night of 3 May 2024, a fire in the Chandariya area of Barpahar, in Goalpara town, destroyed seven shops, with losses put at over Rs 20 lakh. The fire brigade controlled it, and a rickshaw parked near a shop was suspected as the starting point.
On a Monday night in May 2022, a fire around midnight at Tukura in Goalpara district burned about six shops, two godowns and the post office, with losses put near Rs 25 lakh. Police and fire tenders brought it under control, and locals blamed a short circuit.
Goalpara was among the plains districts hit hardest in the great 1897 earthquake, with sand and water erupting from the ground. An official letter of that year puts the toll across nine districts of Assam at 1,542.
1 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Fire and Emergency Services, Goalpara | Goalpara town | Call03663-240101 |
Station line from the Goalpara district flood plan of 2023, the latest list found. The stations at Dudhnoi and Lakhipur are outside this circle. In an emergency, call 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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