Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaNavsari is the district headquarters of Navsari district in south Gujarat, a city of about 1.7 lakh people at Census 2011, with the Purna river, textile and paper units and chemical godowns in the district around it. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city and the district, including Devsar village in Gandevi taluka.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Listed as the emergency police number on the Navsari district website. Works from any phone · 101: National fire number. This district website does not print a fire number, and Gujarat is moving fire calls to the 112 system. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: The Gujarat ambulance number, listed on other Gujarat district websites. The Navsari district website does not print it. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: The Gujarat police number, listed on other Gujarat district websites. The Navsari district website lists a police control room line below. Also reachable through 112
Print the Navsari 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 Navsari 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.
On 26 July 2024 the district collector said the Purna was flowing at 28 feet, well above its danger mark of 23 feet. About 2,200 people from Navsari town and nearby areas were moved to shelter houses, 15 medical teams were put on duty, and at least 70 internal roads and four main roads were closed because of waterlogging.
In the 24 hours to the morning of 5 August 2024, Khergam taluka in the district got 229 mm of rain, the highest in Gujarat that day. The Ambika rose above 23 feet, the Kaveri touched its danger level of 19 feet, 64 flooded roads were closed and schools shut in three talukas.
On a Saturday morning in November 2024 (reported on 9 November), a fire broke out at a transport warehouse near Devsar village in Gandevi taluka while barrels of thinner were being unloaded from a truck. Three workers died and five were hurt, and two more were reported missing at the time.
On 2 April 2025 a fire broke out in the warehouse of a paper mill in the Vesma area, and thick smoke rose over the site. Fire brigades from Navsari, Surat, Bardoli and Palsana were called, and no casualty was reported.
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