Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department

Hollywood, FL · Broward County. Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 275 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.

275
Total personnel
5
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department pairs top-1% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Florida average.

Top 1%
national personnel size
+882%
vs. Florida average
5
stations
$11,721,992
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
PlainFireData Composite Score
92/100
Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department

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.

Staffing capacity A
55 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
275 personnel · 5 stations

Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Hollywood, FL (Broward County), with 5 stations and 275 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #138 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $11,721,992.

  • National personnel rank #138 of 22,440
  • FL personnel rank #11 of 352
  • 1.82 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 27 other listed departments in Broward County

Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

275 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 10052 · Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department, FL 275 personnel · 5 stations

PERS-LARGE · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-LARGE 275
  • STA-FEW 5 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-TOP #138
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ West Haven
  • FEMA-HEAVY $11.7M
  • BOOK-FULL 5/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: West Haven Fire Department, CT (+ 1 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 FL department.

Department Profile

Type
CAREER
Location
Hollywood, FL
FDID
10052

FEMA Grant History

$0
Cumulative funding (FY2011–2022)
0
Awards
Year Award Amount
2022 EMW-2022-FG-04387 $235,300.9
2021 EMW-2021-FG-00150 $368,181.81
2020 EMW-2020-FF-00474 $9,732,150.96
2016 EMW2015FH00128 $1,170,358
2011 EMW-2011-FO-0813 $216,000

Source: USAspending.gov (CFDA 97.044 AFG / 97.083 SAFER)

Staffing vs the Florida average

How Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Florida. In-state it ranks #11 of 352 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #138 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 882% above the state average
Stations
5
State fire deaths/yr
206
FL departments
758

County roster geometry

Broward County HIFLD mix around Hollywood Fire Rescue and Beach Safety Department

Broward County: 41 departments, 2,435 personnel (2 volunteer / 16 career / 0 combination); EMS flag on 100% of departments. County / state rollup.

1.82 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 275 roster).

Photo-finish peer: West Haven Fire Department, CT (+1 personnel).

Nationwide career peers near 275 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every FL department.