Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderEastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company
Allentown, PA · Lehigh County. Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 49 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.
- 49
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 18%
- national personnel size
- +40%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 1
- station
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.
Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company is a Volunteer department serving Allentown, PA (Lehigh County), with 1 station and 49 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #4,151 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #4,151 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #452 of 1,275
- 2.04 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 32 other listed departments in Lehigh County
Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
49 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 39020 · Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company, PA 49 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 49
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Manteca
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Manteca Fire Department, CA (+ 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 PA department.
- Eastern Salisbury… (this dept) 49
- High Elfin Forest-Harm…, CA 49
- Near Manteca, CA 49
- Near Lacona Volunteer, NY 49
- Near Carters Valley Vo…, TN 49
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Allentown, PA
- County
- Lehigh County
- FDID
- 39020
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #452 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #4,151 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 115
- PA departments
- 2,427
County roster fringe
Eastern Salisbury Fire Ambulance and Rescue Company is 4.4% of Lehigh County roster mass
The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,104 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 69% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.04 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 49 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Manteca Fire Department, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 49 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.