Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderLower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company
Gladwyne, PA · Montgomery County. Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 54 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.
- 54
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount well above the Pennsylvania average.
- Top 15%
- national personnel size
- +54%
- 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.
Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company is a Volunteer department serving Gladwyne, PA (Montgomery County), with 1 station and 54 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,361 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #3,361 of 22,440
- PA personnel rank #352 of 1,275
- 1.85 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 63 other listed departments in Montgomery County
Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
54 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 46434 · Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company, PA 54 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 54
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #3,361
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carman Fire Depar…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Carman Fire Department - Rotterdam 3, NY (+ 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.
- Lower Merion Town… (this dept) 54
- High Lakes of the Four…, IN 54
- Near Carman Fire Depar…, NY 54
- Near Potsdam, NY 54
- Near Louisville Volunt…, NY 54
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Gladwyne, PA
- County
- Montgomery County
- FDID
- 46434
Staffing vs the Pennsylvania average
How Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company's personnel count compares to the typical department in Pennsylvania. In-state it ranks #352 of 1,275 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,361 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
Lower Merion Township Fire Department - Gladwyne Fire Company is 1.2% of Montgomery County roster mass
The county lists 94 departments totaling 4,441 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 49% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 54 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Carman Fire Department - Rotterdam 3, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 54 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every PA department.