Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaJalandhar is the headquarters city of Jalandhar district in Punjab, with dense old colonies, many small factories and busy highways towards Amritsar, Chandigarh and Jammu. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, each with a dated example from the city or district.
Checked 9 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Works from any phone · 101: The national fire number. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: The national ambulance number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room number, also reachable through 112
Print the Jalandhar 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 9 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On Diwali night, 8 November 2026, a fire started in a second-floor room of a house in Nijatam Nagar, and a 65-year-old man who was paralysed could not get out and died. Reports say a burning cracker landed in the room while the family was out; the fire took between 22 minutes and about an hour to control, and the cause is not an official finding.
For Diwali 2026 the district fire department kept 18 fire tenders and over 90 staff on alert, and cancelled leave for the weekend. The city had nearly 120 fire calls on the previous Diwali.
On 3 September 2026, a fire broke out at a mattress factory on Basti Peer Dad Road with about 30 workers inside, and the flames spread to houses nearby. Stored chemicals made it hard to control, one person was taken to hospital, and a short circuit was being looked at as the cause.
On 18 January 2026, a truck and a tractor-trolley collided in dense fog near Kishanpur Chowk on the Jalandhar-Bhogpur road, and two people died and seven were hurt. In December 2025, an ambulance carrying a patient hit a parked trailer on the Jalandhar-Chandigarh highway, and police blamed very low visibility.
In August and September 2025, health teams screened patients in 84 villages of the district, most of them in Shahkot block, including Lohian. Officials said no river had breached and the damage was mainly from rainwater.
The district website lists earthquakes as the hazard for Jalandhar and says mild tremors are recorded in the region. The 1905 Kangra earthquake caused serious shaking damage in Jalandhar.
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