Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaRajkot is a busy Saurashtra city of crowded entertainment venues, private hospitals and the Aji river, and its worst recent disaster was a game zone fire that took 27 lives. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, with past incidents from Rajkot.
Checked 20 Oct 2026 against official sources. Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Gujarat single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 108: The district helpline list shows 108 as GVK ambulance and 102 as ambulance · 100: Also reachable through 112
Print the Rajkot emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers. This guide has no local numbers yet, so there are blank lines to write your local fire station, police station and nearest hospital, and your family contacts.
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Checked 20 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On 25 May 2024, fire swept through the TRP Game Zone on Nana-Mava Road and killed 27 people. Police and court records say it operated without the required fire authorisation, and CCTV-based reports described welding near combustible material before the fire spread.
Around 12.30 am on 27 November 2020, fire broke out in the ICU of the Uday Shivanand COVID hospital in the Anand Bungalow Chowk area; five patients died and 26 others were shifted out. The Deputy Chief Minister said a preliminary probe pointed to a short circuit in a ventilator.
On 31 August 2020, heavy rain flooded many areas of Rajkot after the Aji river started overflowing, according to ETV Bharat. Keep off low-lying roads and the riverbank when the river is rising.
After the game zone fire, the Gujarat High Court took up the matter on its own and, on 17 June 2024, ordered an inquiry into municipal responsibility. In January 2025, the state told the court that recruitment in the fire departments of Surat, Ahmedabad and Rajkot had made substantial progress, as reported by LiveLaw.
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