Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderCrystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department
Ellington, CT · Tolland County. Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 17 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 17
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Connecticut average.
- 15th pct.
- national personnel size
- -57%
- vs. Connecticut average
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Ellington, CT (Tolland County) and 17 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #19,072 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #19,072 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #200 of 203
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 20 other listed departments in Tolland County
Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
17 Top 85% higher than 15% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 03051 · Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department, CT 17 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 17
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #19,072
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Woodbridge Townsh…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Woodbridge Township Fire and Rescue, MI (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every CT department.
- Crystal Lake Volu… (this dept) 17
- High Tunas Volunteer, MO 17
- Near Woodbridge Townsh…, MI 17
- Near Escambia County F…, AL 17
- Near Fielding, UT 17
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Ellington, CT
- County
- Tolland County
- FDID
- 03051
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #200 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #19,072 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Crystal Lake Volunteer Fire Department is 1.7% of Tolland County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 973 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Woodbridge Township Fire and Rescue, MI (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 17 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.