Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaYavatmal is a cotton district town in Vidarbha, where hot summers and pesticide spraying are the two big seasonal risks. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local risks on one page. The district plan lists a fire department line, but it is from 2023, so for a fire call 101 or 112 first.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance across Maharashtra · 101: The national fire number. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: State ambulance service. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Also reachable through 112
Print the Yavatmal 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 Yavatmal 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 2017 and 2018, 21 farmers died of pesticide poisoning in Yavatmal district, the highest toll of any district, and the state investigation team recorded 886 people in hospital. Families have taken a product liability case over one pesticide to a Swiss civil court, as a 2023 report noted, but the lesson for anyone spraying is plain: cover up, spray with the wind behind you and wash before you eat.
On 26 April 2026 Yavatmal recorded 46 degrees C, the highest of the year so far, and hot conditions were expected to last till 30 April. The night temperature touched 30 degrees C, the highest in Vidarbha, so even the nights gave little relief.
The district disaster plan lists flood among the seven hazards that apply to the district, naming tahsils such as Wani, Babhulgaon, Maregaon, Pusad and Umarkhed. It also notes that the banks of the Wardha river on its border are sometimes overflowed in exceptional floods.
On Saturday 25 April 2026 a small goods vehicle loaded with firecrackers caught fire in Mahagaon taluka on the way to Pusad, set off explosions and was destroyed, though the driver escaped. The district plan itself lists fire, industrial disasters and road or rail accidents among the hazards that apply.
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