Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaTiruvannamalai is the headquarters town of Tiruvannamalai district in Tamil Nadu, below the Annamalai hill, and it draws very large crowds during the Karthigai Deepam festival. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page, each with a dated example from the town or the district.
Checked 10 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 Tiruvannamalai district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: The national ambulance number. The district website does not print it. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed as the police number on the district website, also reachable through 112
Print the Tiruvannamalai 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 10 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the afternoon of 9 November 2026, four girls from a children's home and a staff nurse drowned in the Samuthiram lake on Perumbakkam Main Road, after heavy rain had filled it. Police said the girls did not know how to swim, and residents pulled all five out. Police are looking into whether permission had been taken.
On 1 December 2024, heavy rain from Cyclone Fengal brought rocks sliding down the Annamalai hill and seven people died. A nine-member expert team was asked to study the soil and rocks, and its findings were to decide whether pilgrims could climb the hill for the Karthigai Mahadeepam.
During the 10-day Karthigai Deepam festival in 2024, police kept large vehicles out of the town and deployed about 14,000 personnel for crowd management. The Maha Deepam that year was on 13 December.
On 15 October 2023, a car carrying a family home to Bengaluru collided head on with a lorry on the Anthanur bypass road near Chengam, on the Tiruvannamalai to Bengaluru highway. Seven people died and the lorry driver left the vehicle and fled. Chengam is about 32 km from the town, outside this guide's radius, so it is a district example.
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