Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderManchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services
Manchester, CT · Hartford County. Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department, 5 stations and 83 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.
- 83
- Total personnel
- 5
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Connecticut average.
- Top 6%
- national personnel size
- +108%
- vs. Connecticut average
- 5
- stations
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.
Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services is a Career (Paid) department serving Manchester, CT (Hartford County), with 5 stations and 83 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,363 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,363 of 22,440
- CT personnel rank #43 of 203
- 6.02 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 41 other listed departments in Hartford County
Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
83 Top 6% higher than 94% 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 02161 · Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services, CT 83 personnel · 5 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 83
- STA-FEW 5 stations
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-TOP #1,363
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pleasant Hills Fi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Pleasant Hills Fire Company, PA (+ 0 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 CT department.
- Manchester Fire R… (this dept) 83
- High Eagle River Fire…, CO 83
- Near Pleasant Hills Fi…, PA 83
- Near Newport, NC 83
- Near Texasville Volunt…, AL 83
Department Profile
- Type
- CAREER
- Location
- Manchester, CT
- County
- Hartford County
- FDID
- 02161
Staffing vs the Connecticut average
How Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Connecticut. In-state it ranks #43 of 203 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,363 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 5
- State fire deaths/yr
- 34
- CT departments
- 418
County roster fringe
Manchester Fire Rescue Emergency Medical Services is 2.5% of Hartford County roster mass
The county lists 74 departments totaling 3,255 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 47% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
6.02 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (5 stations / 83 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Pleasant Hills Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 83 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every CT department.