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Kannur Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Kannur is a coastal city in north Kerala where new apartment towers, a busy beach, a national highway under construction and hill country with heavy monsoon rain all sit within a short drive. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the fire stations of the district and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from Kannur.

Checked 27 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone

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112Emergency 101Fire 108Ambulance 100Police

0497-2700645 Kannur District Emergency Operations CentreDistrict disaster control room for floods and landslides. Toll free 1077 0497-2701092 Kannur District Fire OfficeOffice line at Headquarters Hospital P.O. For a fire call 101 or 112 first 1073 Road accident helplineFor a road crash, call 112 first 1091 Women HelplineFor women in distress

112: Single emergency number in Kerala · 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

Take these numbers with you

Print the Kannur 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 Kannur 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 27 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.

Latest incidents in Kannur

Kannur high-rise flat fire, narrow road slowed fire units26 Oct 2026 · 0 dead · 1 injured

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Local risks in Kannur

High-rise flat fires and narrow roads

On 26 October 2026 a fire gutted a flat on the 9th floor of the 13-storey Rainbow Apartments at Payyambalam, as we cover in a case study. The tenants were out and nobody was hurt, but the narrow road and the little open space around the tower made it hard for the fire vehicles to get in.

Drowning at Payyambalam beach

In early November 2025 three medical students from Karnataka drowned at Payyambalam beach. One was swept away while bathing and the two who tried to save him were also caught, at a spot where authorities had warned of strong waves and whirlpools.

Earth cave-ins at highway worksites in heavy rain

On the Taliparamba to Muzhappilangad stretch of NH 66, a 34-year-old migrant worker died at Chalakkunnu in May 2025 when the earth gave way at a retaining wall site. Heavy rain had set in and a red alert was out for Kannur.

Monsoon landslips and flash floods in the hills

On 1 August 2022 a landslip at Nedumpuram, near Peravoor, swept a mother and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter into floodwater, and the child died. Landslides were reported at several places in the hill panchayats that week and others went missing.

Fire stations in Kannur

10 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.

Station	Area	Contact
Kannur	Kannur district · Burnacherry, Kannur 670013	Call0497-2706900
Thalassery	Kannur district · NH 66, Near TLY fort, Thalassery 670101	Call0490-2344101
Panoor	Kannur district · Kannur 670001 (as printed on the official page)	Call0490-2310031
Koothuparamba	Kannur district · Kuthuparamba - Valiyavelicham - Cheruvanchery Rd 670671	Call0490-2364200
Mattannur	Kannur district · Main Road, Near Mattannur PRNSS College 670702	Call0490-2471101
Thaliparamba	Kannur district · Velipara Rd, Karimbam, Thaliparamba 670142	Call0460-2207101
Iritty	Kannur district · Nerampokku Rd, Nerambokku, Iritty 670703	Call0490-2493001
Peravoor	Kannur district · Peravoor 670673	Call0490-2443250
Payyannur	Kannur district · Annur Rd, Payyanur 670307	Call0498-5202901
Peringom	Kannur district · Peringome 670353	Call0498-5236100

These are the 10 fire stations of Kannur district on the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services site, read on 27 October 2026; Payyannur and Peringom are well north of the city. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.

Stay safe: quick checklist

Save 112, 101, 108 and 100 in your phone today, plus the district disaster line 1077. Teach older relatives and children old enough to use a phone.
Living in a tall apartment block? Walk from your door to the stair door and back tonight, keep the landing clear of shoe racks and cycles, and use the stairs, not the lift, in a fire. When you call 101, give the building name, the road and the floor.
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.

Residents' associations: check that the road and gate leading to your tower can take a fire engine, keep it free of parked vehicles, and ask the builder or committee whether the alarms and extinguishers are serviced.
At Payyambalam and other beaches, stay out of the water where warning boards or officials say the current is strong. If someone is pulled out, do not jump in after them; shout, call 112 and throw a float or rope.
In heavy rain, keep away from fresh cuts, retaining walls and slopes along NH 66 and other roads under work, and near Peravoor and Kelakam move to a safer place early when a stream turns muddy or loud. Call 1077 for the district control room.

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Kannur at a glance

City area: Kannur Municipal Corporation about 78 sq km (a corporation since 2015)
Population: About 2.32 lakh in the corporation area (Census 2011); Kannur district 25,23,003
Fire stations: 10 in Kannur district
District area: 2,966 sq km, from the coast to the Western Ghats foothills
Emergency system: Dial 112; fire is 101, ambulance 108, police 100, district disaster line 1077