Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaKattappana is a hill town and municipality in Idukki district in Kerala, at roughly 800 to 950 metres, with cardamom and pepper farms on the slopes around it. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Listed as the distress helpline in the Kerala disaster management directory. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as the fire service control room number in the Kerala disaster management directory · 108: Listed as the ambulance service number in the Kerala disaster management directory. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police helpline in the Kerala disaster management directory. Also reachable through 112
Print the Kattappana 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 Kattappana 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 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Around 1.30 am on 18 October 2025 a landslide came down from Koonthalampara hill at VT Padi, a residential area near Kattappana town. Trees, boulders and mud buried part of a road and some vehicles, cardamom and pepper crops were destroyed, two bridges were damaged and no one was hurt. The same area had a similar slide in the 2019 floods.
In the heavy rain reported on 1 August 2026, landslides blocked the Kattappana Vazhavara road and the Nellimala road, and water submerged a low level crossing at Kokkayar. Across Idukki two people died in landslides, at Kudayathoor and Vagamon, and the shutters of minor dams were opened.
From 1 June to 17 August 2018 Idukki district got 3,211 mm of rain against a normal of 1,749 mm, and the downpour caused severe landslides that left the hill districts cut off. All five overflow gates of the Idukki dam were opened together.
The Kerala disaster management directory of 2025 lists a district fire officer and eight stations for the whole of Idukki district, with Kattappana and Nedumkandam the two close to this town. In April 2026 a Kattappana team was among the units sent to a waste plant fire at Munnar, about 37 km away in a straight line, which shows how far crews travel on hill roads.
2 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Kattappana Fire and Rescue Station | Kattappana · Kattappana town | Call0486-8272300 |
| Nedumkandam Fire and Rescue Station | Nedumkandam · Nedumkandam town | Call04868-238101 |
The two station lines are taken from the Kerala disaster management directory of 2025, which prints no street address. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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