Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderGarden City Fire Company
Wallingford, PA · Delaware County. Garden City Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 95 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.
- 95
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Garden City Fire Company pairs top-5% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 5%
- national personnel size
- +171%
- vs. Pennsylvania average
- 1
- station
- $658,899
- 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.
Garden City Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Wallingford, PA (Delaware County), with 1 station and 95 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,048 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $658,899.
- National personnel rank #1,048 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #78 of 1,275
- 1.05 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 58 other listed departments in Delaware County
Garden City Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
95 Top 5% higher than 95% 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 23065 · Garden City Fire Company, PA 95 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-MID · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 95
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,048
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Conway
- FEMA-MID $659K
- BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Conway Fire Department, AR (+ 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.
- Garden City Fire… (this dept) 95
- High Friendship Fire C…, WV 95
- Near Conway, AR 95
- Near Interlachen Lake…, FL 95
- Near Geneseo Volunteer, NY 95
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Wallingford, PA
- County
- Delaware County
- FDID
- 23065
FEMA Grant History
| Year | Award | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | EMW-2020-FF-01108 | $408,900 |
| 2019 | EMW-2019-FG-05117 | $250,000.22 |
| 2009 | EMW2008FF00396 | $-1 |
Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Garden City Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #78 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,048 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
Garden City Fire Company is 2.7% of Delaware County roster mass
The county lists 71 departments totaling 3,474 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 65% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.05 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 95 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Conway Fire Department, AR (+0 personnel).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 95 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.