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Kalpetta Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Kalpetta is the district headquarters of Wayanad, on high ground where the monsoon is heavy, the roads climb through ghats and the 2024 landslides are still fresh in memory. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the fire stations and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from Wayanad.

Checked 26 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone

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2deaths reported

13injured reported

112Emergency 101Fire 108Ambulance 100Police

04936-204151 Wayanad District Emergency Operations CentreDistrict disaster control room at Kalpetta. Toll free 1077 04936-255229 Vythiri Taluk Emergency Operations CentreControl room of the taluk Kalpetta is in, listed as open round the clock 04936-202333 Wayanad District Fire Office, KalpettaOffice line, same as the Kalpetta station. For a fire call 101 or 112 first

112: Single emergency number in Kerala, run by the police · 101: Kerala Fire and Rescue Services. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Also reachable through 112

Printable Kalpetta emergency card: A4 sheet with national and local emergency numbers and cut-out wallet cards

Take these numbers with you

Print the Kalpetta 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 Kalpetta 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 26 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.

Latest incidents in Kalpetta

Two die as tourist van collides with truck near Sulthan Bathery12 Oct 2026 · 2 dead · 13 injured

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Local risks in Kalpetta

Night crashes on tourist and ghat routes

Around 1.45 am on 12 October 2026, a tempo traveller carrying a student group home from Munnar reportedly hit a truck at Beenachi near Sulthan Bathery and overturned. Two people died and 13 were injured, and driver fatigue was mentioned early but not confirmed, as we cover in a case study.

Landslides in the taluk of Kalpetta

In the early hours of 30 July 2024, landslides hit Mundakkai and Chooralmala villages in Meppadi, in the same taluk as Kalpetta. By the end of the first week 231 bodies had been recovered and 118 people were missing.

Relief camps and closed areas after a disaster

By 3 August 2024, more than 10,000 people were living in 93 relief camps across Wayanad. Entry to the worst-hit villages was still banned on 19 August, so a disaster here disrupts life for weeks.

Very heavy monsoon rain on steep slopes

Mundakkai received 572 mm of rain in the 48 hours before the 2024 slides, and the local disaster plan of 2020 had already marked it as landslide-prone. Kalpetta averages about 3,500 mm of rain a year, and July is the wettest month.

Fire stations in Kalpetta

3 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.

Station	Area	Contact
Kalpetta	Wayanad district · Bangalore-Calicut Highway, Madiyur, Kalpetta	Call04936-202333
Sulthan Bathery	Wayanad district · Pulpally Rd, Sultan Bathery	Call04936-227101
Mananthavady	Wayanad district · Mananthavady	Call04935-245052

These are the three fire stations of Wayanad district. Station lines are office numbers, so in an emergency call 112 or 101 first.

Stay safe: quick checklist

Save 112, 101, 108 and 100 in your phone today, plus the district disaster line 1077 and the Wayanad control room 04936-204151.
When rain has been heavy for two or three days, leave a slope, riverbank or hill road early if you see cracks, tilting trees, muddy springs or a rumbling sound. Move to the shelter your panchayat names, and do not wait for an official order.
Keep a ready bag in the monsoon with documents, medicines, a torch, a power bank and some cash, and know the higher, safer building near your home.

Travelling groups should plan rest stops and a relief driver before leaving, avoid driving through the small hours after a long day, and keep a passenger list with the vehicle number and emergency contacts. Wear seat belts all the way.
At a crash, call 112 with a clear landmark, keep the road open for ambulances, and do not force doors of an unstable vehicle or handle leaking fuel unless the scene is safe.
On a ghat road in red or orange rain alert, check the road status before you start, drive slowly in low gear on downhill bends and stay off the road at night if the district asks you to. Cool the burn under cool, clean running water for 20 minutes. Even 10 minutes helps if that's all you can manage. No ice, toothpaste, oil or butter.

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Kalpetta at a glance

Town: Kalpetta 31,580 people (Census 2011); headquarters of Wayanad district, about 780 m above sea level
Wayanad district: 2,132 sq km; 8,17,420 people (Census 2011); three taluks
Fire stations: Three: Kalpetta, Sulthan Bathery and Mananthavady
Landslides, July 2024: 231 bodies recovered and 118 missing by the end of the first week
Emergency system: Dial 112; fire is 101, ambulance 108, police 100, district disaster line 1077