Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderEast Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Cleveland, OH · Cuyahoga County. East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 53 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.
- 53
- Total personnel
- 2
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Ohio average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +77%
- vs. Ohio average
- 2
- stations
- $3,381,629
- FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record
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.
East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Cleveland, OH (Cuyahoga County), with 2 stations and 53 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,437 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $3,381,629.
- National personnel rank #3,437 of 22,440
- OH personnel rank #141 of 1,108
- 3.77 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 52 other listed departments in Cuyahoga County
East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
53 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 18033 · East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services, OH 53 personnel · 2 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 53
- STA-FEW 2 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,437
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Augusta-Bridge Cr…
- FEMA-MID $3.4M
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Augusta-Bridge Creek Township Fire Department Incorporated, WI (+ 0 personnel)
Career/paid 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 OH department.
- East Cleveland Fi… (this dept) 53
- High Sapulpa, OK 53
- Near Augusta-Bridge Cr…, WI 53
- Near Cherokee, IA 53
- Near Melrose, MA 53
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Cleveland, OH
- County
- Cuyahoga County
- FDID
- 18033
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | EMW-2021-FG-00227 | $287,619.04 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-07200 | $952,381 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FH-00445 | $531,139.77 |
| 2017 | EMW-2017-FV-02273 | $238,096 |
| 2016 | EMW2015FH00689 | $1,372,393 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Ohio average
How East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Ohio. In-state it ranks #141 of 1,108 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,437 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 2
- State fire deaths/yr
- 138
- OH departments
- 1,501
County roster fringe
East Cleveland Fire and Emergency Medical Services is 1.7% of Cuyahoga County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,053 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 89% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.77 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 53 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Augusta-Bridge Creek Township Fire Department Incorporated, WI (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 53 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OH department.