Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderMarshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services
Bedford, IN · Lawrence County. Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 9 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.
- 9
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Indiana average.
- 1st pct.
- national personnel size
- -61%
- vs. Indiana 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.
Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is a Volunteer department serving Bedford, IN (Lawrence County), with 1 station and 9 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,123 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #22,123 of 22,440
- IN personnel rank #589 of 589
- 11.11 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 11 other listed departments in Lawrence County
Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
9 Top 99% higher than 1% 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 47006 · Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, IN 9 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MICRO · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MICRO 9
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-LOWER #22,123
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mount Shasta Vist…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company, CA (+ 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 IN department.
- Marshall Township… (this dept) 9
- High North Sabine Fire…, LA 9
- Near Mount Shasta Vist…, CA 9
- Near Birdsong Rural Vo…, AR 9
- Near Diamondhead-Lone…, OK 9
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Bedford, IN
- County
- Lawrence County
- FDID
- 47006
Staffing vs the Indiana average
How Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Indiana. In-state it ranks #589 of 589 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,123 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 94
- IN departments
- 969
County roster fringe
Marshall Township Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services is 4.5% of Lawrence County roster mass
The county lists 15 departments totaling 200 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 73% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
11.11 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 9 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Mount Shasta Vista Volunteer Fire Company, CA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 9 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every IN department.