Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaTheni, also called Theni Allinagaram, is the headquarters town of Theni district in southern Tamil Nadu, a valley town at the foot of the Western Ghats. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the district fire stations and the main local risks on one page, drawing on the district disaster plan and the 2018 Kurangani forest fire.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: National emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Works from any phone · 101: Listed as Fire and Rescue on the Theni district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed as the accident help line on the Theni district website, which also lists 102 as the ambulance help line. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police control room on the Theni district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Theni 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 Theni 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.
The district disaster plan lists floods, landslides, droughts, heat waves, forest fires and epidemics as the main hazards and calls floods and landslides the real concern. The district is fed by the Vaigai, Kottakudi and Suruli rivers and holds the Periyar, Vaigai, Manjalar and Sothuparai dams.
The district plan names Bodi Mettu, Cumbum Mettu, Megamalai and the Kumuly ghat road as the main landslide stretches. Debris flows and mudslides come in spells of intense rain and often cut traffic.
A forest fire swept the Kurangani hills above Bodinayakkanur on 11 March 2018 and burned trekkers, with the toll reaching 19 by 23 March. The district plan records that 35 of 39 beats in the Theni forest division and 25 of 54 in the Megamalai division are vulnerable to forest fire.
Theni town is hot in summer, with an average summer temperature of about 39.5 degrees Celsius on the town page. The district plan names Andipatti, Pannaipuram, Kandamanoor, Thevaram, Sankarapuram, Kombai and Dompuchery as areas where heat waves blow.
9 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Allinagaram FS | Theni District · Allinagaram | Call04546-252699 |
| Periyakulam FS | Theni District · Periyakulam | Call04546-231299 |
| Bodinayakkanur FS | Theni District · Bodinayakkanur | Call04546-280299 |
| Uthamapalayam FS | Theni District · Uthamapalayam | Call04554-265201 |
| Cumbam FS | Theni District · Cumbam | Call04554-271292 |
| Aundipatty FS | Theni District · Aundipatty | Call04546-242222 |
| Myladumparai FS | Theni District · Myladumparai | Call04554-227258 |
| Kadamalaikundu FS | Theni District · Kadamalaikundu | Call04554-293101 |
| Chinnamanur FS | Theni District · Chinnamanur | Call04554-247101 |
These are the 9 fire stations of Theni district on the state fire service list read on 15 November 2026. Allinagaram is the station for Theni town; Cumbam, Chinnamanur and Kadamalaikundu are well away from it. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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