Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaGodhra is the headquarters town of Panchmahal district, with a busy civil hospital, the Mesri river running through the town and the Pavagadh hill shrine not far away. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local hazards on one page, with dated examples.
Checked 26 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Gujarat's single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: National fire number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: State ambulance service. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room, also reachable through 112
Print the Godhra 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 26 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On 9 October 2026, a fire broke out in the medicine-store room of the Government Civil Hospital in Godhra, and more than 200 patients, including pregnant women, were reported moved out safely, as we cover in a case study. The cause was not established, and a short circuit was only a suspicion.
On 30 August 2025, upstream rain raised the Mesri river, which flows through Godhra, and flooded low-lying homes. Families in low-lying parts of Godhra and Halol were moved, and a causeway went under water and stopped traffic.
On the afternoon of 6 September 2025, a cargo trolley carrying building material for the Pavagadh temple ropeway fell after its cables snapped, and six people died. The public ropeway was shut that day because of bad weather.
On 16 December 2021, around 10 am, a blast at a refrigerant plant in Goghamba village, Panchmahal, killed two workers and wounded 14, three of them critically. Fire tenders had to come from Godhra, Halol and Kalol.
A report dated 21 November 2025 describes a large fire at a wood warehouse in Godhra, with an electrical short circuit suspected. Timber, packing and stacked goods burn fast and a late call for help costs the stock.
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