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Jehanabad Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Jehanabad is the district headquarters town in Bihar, on the Patna to Gaya road, with farm villages and the Falgu river all around it. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, each with a dated example from the district.

Checked 9 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone
1incidents covered
2deaths reported
8injured reported
112Emergency 101Fire 108Ambulance 100Police
0612-2222218 Bihar Fire Service HelplineState level line in Patna, not a Jehanabad station. For a fire call 101 or 112 first 0612-2217305 Disaster Control RoomControl room number printed on the Jehanabad district disaster page, a Patna code. The page was last updated in 2018 155300 Citizen Call CentreDistrict portal citizen helpline, for information and complaints, not for emergencies

112: Bihar's single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: State fire brigade number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Emergency ambulance. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room, also reachable through 112

Take these numbers with you

Print the Jehanabad 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 Jehanabad 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 9 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.

Local risks in Jehanabad

Auto and harvester crash near Kandaul

On 7 November 2026, a passenger auto carrying nine engineering students and its driver hit a harvester near Kandaul village on the Jehanabad-Hulasganj-Gaya road and overturned. The students were coming back from exams; reports differ between two and three deaths, seven to eight were hurt and the cause is not settled.

Falgu floods and broken embankments

On 22 and 23 August 2025, the Falgu swelled after heavy rain in Jharkhand and water entered low villages in Jehanabad, among them Chunukpur, Mananpur, Bharathu and Pariyama. Three breaches in an embankment near Bharathu waterlogged the Jehanabad-Bihar Sharif highway, NH-33, and traffic stopped from Friday night.

Lightning in fields and under trees

In early July 2024, lightning killed three people in Jehanabad within 24 hours, when Bihar reported 19 lightning deaths in all, mostly people working in fields or sheltering under trees. On the evening of 4 July 2023, three more people died in Jehanabad, within a state toll of 26.

Hostel fire at the engineering college

On 19 January 2026, a fire broke out in a hostel of the Government Engineering College in Jehanabad district and six students fell ill, from smoke or extinguisher gas depending on the account. They were taken to hospital and said to be stable, and a short circuit from a high power appliance was suspected.

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Jehanabad at a glance

District headquarters
Jehanabad is the headquarters of Jehanabad district in Bihar
Emergency system
Dial 112; fire is 101, ambulance 108, police 100
State fire helpline
0612-2222218 in Patna; no Jehanabad station line was found
District portal lines
Women helpline 1091, child helpline 1098, citizen call centre 155300

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