City safety guide

Panipat Fire and Emergency Safety Guide

Panipat is Haryana's textile city, with spinning, weaving, yarn and recycled-fabric units packed along the GT Road belt and the Yamuna running along the east of the district. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city.

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

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112Emergency 101Fire 102Ambulance 100Police

0180-2631855 District Control Room (line 1)District control room line. Call 112 or 101 first 0180-2653850 District Control Room (line 2)Second district control room line. Call 112 or 101 first 1077 Disaster Management HelplineRuns round the clock during floods and in office hours otherwise 1073 Accident Help LineFor road accidents

112: Haryana's single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: Fire station number listed for Panipat. If it does not connect, call 112 · 102: Ambulance control room listed for Panipat. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Police control room, also reachable through 112

Take these numbers with you

Print the Panipat 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 Panipat 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 Panipat

Worker burnt to death in Panipat thread factory fire27 Oct 2026 · 1 dead · 1 injured

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Local risks in Panipat

Night fires in thread and yarn units

At about 3.30 am on 27 October 2026, fire broke out in a thread-making unit in the Shivnagar industrial area near Kishanpura, which makes yarn from cotton and synthetic fibre and had workers inside. One worker died at the spot and another was critically burnt, and the cause is not known; we cover it in a case study.

Textile mill and warehouse fires

The district disaster plan records a textile mill fire in Panipat on 7 October 2007 in which 10 people died, with a short circuit as the cause. On 9 November 2025, fires at a factory on Jatal Road and a cloth warehouse on Barsat Road needed help from Sonipat, Karnal and the refinery, fertiliser and thermal plants, and no casualties were mentioned.

Water for the fire tenders

A report of 21 April 2026 says only four hydrants fill the tenders, at Hali Park, Sector 25, the Sector 18 toll plaza and Samalkha, and a refill takes 15 to 20 minutes. Most factories have no tank or tube well of their own, and the industrial area has more than 20,000 factories.

Refinery, fertiliser and chemical units

The district plan counts nine major accident hazard units, among them the oil refinery, the fertiliser plant and the thermal power station, and recalls an ammonia leak at the fertiliser plant in 1992. On 12 June 2010, a fire in chemical vessels holding 5 tonnes of triethylaluminium at the naphtha cracker plant injured two people.

Yamuna floods

On 18 August 2025 the Yamuna reached the danger mark of 231.85 m at Panipat after more than 1.78 lakh cusecs were released upstream, and crops on about 14,000 acres were reported waterlogged, with no major damage in the city. In the 2010 flood, the embankment breached by 80 feet at Pathergarh and about 2,500 acres went under water.

Crashes on NH-44 (GT Road)

In 2024 the district recorded 570 road accidents and 308 deaths, and police named NH-44 black spots at Nangal Kheri, Dahar Chowk and near the Nexa showroom, among others. On a Friday night in October 2024, a truck hit a car from behind on the NH-44 flyover near Sanjay Chowk; the car caught fire and four of the five men died.

Fire stations in Panipat

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Station	Area	Contact
Panipat Main	Panipat district · Panipat city	Call 101
Samalkha	Panipat district · Samalkha town	Call 101

Two fire stations are named for Panipat district on the published state list, which carries no date, address or phone, so newer stations may be missing. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.

Stay safe: quick checklist

Save 112, 101, 100 and 102 in your phone today. The district control room lines are 0180-2631855 and 0180-2653850; call 112 first if you can.
If you work a night shift in a spinning, weaving or yarn unit, walk from your machine to the nearest exit and a second way out before the shift gets busy. Check that doors open from inside and nothing is stacked in front of them.
Cotton and synthetic fibre lint settles on machines, beams and ceilings and carries a flame fast, so clean it on a fixed schedule. Owners should build a water tank or tube well on the premises, because a tender may lose an hour at a distant hydrant.

When the Yamuna is high, stay away from the embankment and riverside villages, and move cattle and papers early when the administration warns. The disaster helpline is 1077.
Cross the GT Road only at a foot overbridge or marked crossing, not over the divider grills, and slow down near the NH-44 black spots.
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.

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Panipat at a glance

Population: Panipat city: 2,94,292 (Census 2011); district: 12,02,811
District area: 1,268 sq km
Industry: Wool, cotton and synthetic fibre textiles; 9 major accident hazard units in the district
Fire stations: Two named on the state list: Panipat Main and Samalkha
Emergency system: Dial 112; fire is 101, ambulance 102, police 100