Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaZirakpur is a fast-growing town next to Chandigarh and Panchkula, in SAS Nagar (Mohali) district of Punjab. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the district police control room and the main local fire risks on one page, with dated examples from the Baltana furniture market and the wedding venues on the Zirakpur-Panchkula road.
Checked 5 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Punjab police emergency helpline. Works from any phone · 101: Fire brigade. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Dial 108 for an ambulance anywhere in Punjab. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Also reachable through 112
Print the Zirakpur 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 Zirakpur 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 5 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Around 4 in the morning of 4 November 2026 a fire spread from shed to shed in the Baltana furniture market and gutted 22 tin sheds, with goods worth lakhs lost ahead of Diwali. Nobody died, a short circuit was suspected but not confirmed, and the sheds held furniture, paints, thinners and spirits on temporary electricity connections; it was the market's third fire in about two years, and we cover it in a case study.
On 13 September 2022 the top floor of a furniture showroom in the market was gutted, and fire officers found it had no fire NOC and no firefighting arrangement. On 27 May 2024 more than 24 kiosks on a vacant one-acre plot burned after a short circuit, with 12 fire engines needed and a commercial LPG warehouse nearby; reports differ on how many engines came in 2022.
On the night of 2 November 2025 a fire that began in one wedding venue on the Zirakpur-Panchkula road spread to the next, destroying the pandals at both while a wedding was on. Guests were taken out in time and nobody died; a short circuit was believed to be the cause, and the police officer said adequate fire safety measures had not been taken.
In September 2025 the foundation stone was laid for a dedicated fire station building at Zirakpur, costing Rs 1.91 crore, with the local MLA saying the town was fast becoming a hub of high-rise buildings. We could not confirm whether it is built and running, so keep 112 and 101 ready and know your building's exits.
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