Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaPorbandar is a port city and district headquarters on the Saurashtra coast of Gujarat, with about 1.5 lakh people at Census 2011, a busy fishing and cargo jetty and a cement works in the district. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the city and the district.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. The Porbandar district website does not print it; Gujarat runs its fire and emergency calls through the 112 system. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as Fire and Rescue on the Porbandar district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed as the GVK ambulance number on the Porbandar district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed on the Porbandar district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Porbandar 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 Porbandar 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.
In mid June 2023, with Cyclone Biparjoy approaching, people from low-lying parts of Porbandar were moved to shelter homes, the Chowpatty beach was closed and large waves crossed the beach road. Port signal number 10, which means a severe cyclone crossing over or near the port, was shown.
Heavy rain in Porbandar in July 2024 (reported on 20 July) brought about 300 mm in a few hours and stranded 250 train passengers. Forty-four people were rescued and more than 600 were kept in shelter homes.
On the morning of 22 September 2025 a cargo ship loaded with rice and sugar caught fire at the jetty, with a short circuit suspected. All 14 crew were brought off safely, three fire units were used, and the ship was towed out to open water because the cargo kept the fire spreading.
On 12 August 2021 scaffolding gave way inside a chimney being renovated at a cement factory in Porbandar district. Three labourers died and three were rescued, one of them lifted out by helicopter.
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