Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaKapurthala is a district headquarters in Punjab, next to Jalandhar, and the district is home to the Rail Coach Factory. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated fire examples and the state's own flood and quake statements.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Emergency police number printed on the Kapurthala district website. Works from any phone · 101: Fire number on the Kapurthala district helpline page, dated September 2021. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Ambulance number on the Kapurthala district helpline page, dated September 2021. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police number on the Kapurthala district helpline page, dated September 2021. Also reachable through 112
Print the Kapurthala 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 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the morning of 29 May 2026, a fire in the fruit market near the Sadar police station destroyed seven temporary shops, with goods worth lakhs lost. The call reached the fire brigade at about 5.07 am, two tenders worked for nearly an hour and a half, and the cause was still being found.
A fire outside the Rail Coach Factory on the night before 13 April 2024 gutted 150 jhuggis. Eight fire tenders were needed, it took about three hours to control, and no deaths were reported.
An older draft of the state disaster plan lists the Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala among the units in Punjab that handle hazardous material. The same plan says structure fires can spread quickly to adjoining buildings, with faulty wiring among the causes.
The state flood guidebook for 2026 shows flood inundation along the Beas in Kapurthala district on 21 August 2025, and lists Beas vulnerable points in the district. The state plan also names Kapurthala among the districts hit by hill streams.
The state disaster plan records an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 in Kapurthala district in 1952 and lists the district among the northern ones liable to intensity VIII shaking. Old palaces and weak buildings need regular checking.
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