Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaPalanpur is the headquarters town of Banaskantha district in north Gujarat, on the road to Abu Road and Ahmedabad, with a large market yard, a district hospital and several private hospitals. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the district control room and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district.
Checked 8 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Gujarat's single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: National fire number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: State ambulance service. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room, also reachable through 112
Print the Palanpur 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 Palanpur 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 8 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the evening of 7 November 2026, a fire at Mavjat Multispeciality Hospital in Palanpur began in the kitchen and, by most reports, spread up to the second floor and the roof. Staff and relatives moved the patients out, some with their oxygen cylinders, and no injury or death was reported, though reports differ on the cause.
On 19 February 2024, a fire at the Palanpur market yard began around 9.45 am and was brought under control around 2.30 pm. Three shops were gutted, four fire engines came, and the quick spread was put down to cotton bags.
On 1 April 2025, a fire and blast at a firecracker godown in Deesa GIDC, about 28 km from Palanpur, killed 21 people and left six injured. Early reports blamed a boiler explosion, and the firm had no valid licence to store firecrackers.
On 24 January 2026, a truck reported to be coming on the wrong side hit an Innova near Iqbalgarh on the Abu-Palanpur highway, and six people travelling to a Palanpur hospital died at the spot. Three more were critically hurt, reports differ between six and seven deaths, and police started a case against the truck driver.
On 3 July 2025, more than 6 inches of rain fell on Palanpur overnight, the Palanpur-Ahmedabad highway was waterlogged, one area became an island and schools were shut in Palanpur and four other talukas. In July 2017, water released from Dantiwada dam on the Banas river flooded villages and at least 29 people died in the district, two of them in Palanpur town when a wall collapsed.
In April 2025, the state disaster authority named Palanpur among ten towns that will get a heat action plan. The district website describes very hot summers, with highs up to 43 degrees C.
1 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Palanpur Fire Department | Palanpur town | Call02742-258351 / 02742-250699 / 02742-257372 |
One fire department is listed for Palanpur, with three office lines; no street address was published. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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