Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaVijayapura is the district headquarters of Vijayapura district in north Karnataka, an old walled city known for the Gol Gumbaz, with the Bhima river running through the district. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the fire station name 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: Karnataka's single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance · 101: Listed as Fire on the Vijayapura district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: The district website lists 102 and 108 as ambulance numbers. If neither connects, call 112 · 100: Listed as Police on the Vijayapura district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Vijayapura 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 Vijayapura 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 the early hours of 5 February 2026, a fire at a car service centre on NH-50 in Vijayapura city burnt about 20 vehicles. Fire tenders brought it under control and no casualty was reported, but the cause was not known at the time.
At about 10 pm on 27 November 2025, a fire that started at a food centre on Linga Gudi Road spread to the next stalls and grew worse when gas cylinders exploded. Seven shops were destroyed and a house nearby was damaged, and firefighters pulled five more cylinders out of the heat. No casualty was reported.
On the evening of 4 February 2026, a major fire broke out at a sugar factory in Havinal village in Chadchan taluk of Vijayapura district. Fire tenders reached the site quickly and no casualty was reported at the time.
In October 2020, the Bhima stayed in spate in Vijayapura, Kalaburagi and Yadgir after heavy rain and water released from dams in neighbouring Maharashtra, and the Army and disaster response teams were called in. In all, 111 villages in four north Karnataka districts, Vijayapura among them, were affected.
1 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Vijayapura Fire Station | Vijayapura · Vijayapura | Call 101 |
Station names only; no station phone numbers were found. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first.
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