Department profile
VolunteerFriendship Hook and Ladder Company
Boyertown, PA · Berks County. Friendship Hook and Ladder Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 42
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Friendship Hook and Ladder Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 24%
- national personnel size
- +20%
- 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.
Friendship Hook and Ladder Company is a Volunteer department serving Boyertown, PA (Berks County), with 1 station and 42 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #5,494 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #5,494 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #575 of 1,275
- 2.38 stations per 100 personnel
- 46 other listed departments in Berks County
Friendship Hook and Ladder Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
42 Top 24% higher than 76% 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 06015 · Friendship Hook and Ladder Company, PA 42 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 42
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-UPPER #5,494
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clarkston Fire Se…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Clarkston Fire Service Area, MT (+ 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.
- Friendship Hook a… (this dept) 42
- High Somerset, MA 42
- Near Clarkston Fire Se…, MT 42
- Near Throop Volunteer, NY 42
- Near North Shelby Coun…, AL 42
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Boyertown, PA
- County
- Berks County
- FDID
- 06015
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Friendship Hook and Ladder Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #575 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #5,494 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
Friendship Hook and Ladder Company is 1.5% of Berks County roster mass
The county lists 73 departments totaling 2,857 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 10% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
2.38 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 42 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Clarkston Fire Service Area, MT (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 42 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.