Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaRishikesh sits where the Ganga leaves the hills, and the Char Dham highway to Badrinath starts here. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the fire stations near the town and the main local risks on one page, with past incidents from Rishikesh and the Ganga valley.
Checked 26 Oct 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Uttarakhand's single emergency number for police, fire, ambulance and disaster calls · 101: Fire brigade. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Emergency ambulance. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Also reachable through 112
Print the Rishikesh 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 Rishikesh 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 26 October 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Early on 15 October 2026, a car with five relatives went off the highway near Pali village, about 4 km from Devprayag, and fell some 150 metres into a gorge. Two people died and three were hurt, rescuers carried the bodies across the river on a raft, and no cause has been published. We cover it in a case study.
On 14 August 2023, heavy rain brought a landslide down on a resort at Lakshman Jhula, and four bodies, including a couple and their son, were recovered from the debris. Uttarakhand's rain-related toll had reached 10 by 16 August.
A flood washed away the old rope bridge at Lakshman Jhula in 1924, and in the 2013 floods the Ganga carried away a Shiva statue near Parmarth Niketan. The ghats and riverside lanes are the first places to go under when the river rises.
In the same August 2023 rain, a stretch of the Rishikesh-Badrinath national highway was washed away near Pipalkoti Bharenpani, and the Pauri-Kotdwar-Dugadda highway was blocked by landslide debris at Amsaur. Pilgrims and drivers can be stuck for hours with no phone signal.
4 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Rishikesh Fire Station | Dehradun district · Rishikesh | Call0135-2430101 |
| Narendra Nagar Fire Station | Tehri Garhwal district · Narendra Nagar | Call01378-227255 |
| Mayapur Fire Station (Haridwar) | Haridwar district · Mayapur | Call01334-265600 |
| Dehradun Fire Station | Dehradun district · Dehradun city | Call0135-2716242, 0135-2716240 |
Station names and office lines for Rishikesh and the nearest stations in Tehri Garhwal, Haridwar and Dehradun; the list is undated and shows no station at Devprayag or Lakshman Jhula. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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