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New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting

New Orleans, LA · Orleans County. New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting is a fire department 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
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting pairs modest national personnel with a headcount well below the Louisiana average.

1st pct.
national personnel size
-65%
vs. Louisiana average
$17,998,176
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
100/100
New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting

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
No station count on file for this department
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment A
$1,999,797 in AFG grant funding per staff member (national median $11,875, among departments with a grant on file)
9 personnel

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting is a fire department serving New Orleans, LA (Orleans County) and 9 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #22,137 of 22,440. Cumulative FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on record: $17,998,176.

  • National personnel rank #22,137 of 22,440
  • LA personnel rank #335 of 342
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 1 other listed department in Orleans County

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting 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 36005 · New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting, LA 9 personnel

PERS-MICRO · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-HEAVY · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MICRO 9
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #22,137
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boulder Volunteer…
  • FEMA-HEAVY $18.0M
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Boulder Volunteer Fire Company, WY (+ 0 personnel)

Instrument codes from this department’s HIFLD personnel and station counts, staffing type, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer department, FEMA AFG/SAFER book, and field completeness, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every LA department.

Department Profile

Type
Location
New Orleans, LA
FDID
36005

FEMA Grant History

$18.0M
Cumulative funding (FY2005–2021)
9
Awards
Year Award Amount
2021 EMW-2021-FG-00259 $345,090.9
2019 EMW-2019-FF-00910 $15,908,086.4
2019 EMW-2019-FG-05966 $356,052
2015 EMW2014FO05393 $277,701
2014 EMW2013FO06833 $263,579
2013 EMW2012FO06963 $287,744
2010 EMW-2010-FO-0140 $244,000
2010 EMW2009FH01301 $-1
2005 EMW-2005-FG-0820 $315,924

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

Staffing vs the Louisiana average

How New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting's personnel count compares to the typical department in Louisiana. In-state it ranks #335 of 342 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #22,137 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▼ 65% below the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
96
LA departments
786

County roster fringe

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting is 1.0% of Orleans County roster mass

The county lists 5 departments totaling 880 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 40% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Boulder Volunteer Fire Company, WY (+0 personnel).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide departments near 9 personnel

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

Boulder Volunteer Fire Company, WY 9 Lexington County Fire Service, SC 9 Latham Dog Creek Fire Department, OK 9 Oakland Volunteer Fire Department, TN 9

Frequently Asked Questions

How many firefighters does New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting have?

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting has 9 total personnel according to HIFLD data. This is 65% below the Louisiana average of 26 per department. Among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel, it ranks #22,137 of 22,440 by total personnel (same basis as the largest-departments ranking). Within LA, it ranks #335 of 342 by personnel.

Does New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting provide EMS services?

Yes, New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in addition to fire response.

How many fire stations does New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting operate?

Station count data for New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting is not available in the HIFLD database.

What type of fire department is New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting?

New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting is a fire department serving Orleans County, LA.

Has New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting received federal grants?

Yes, New Orleans Lakefront Airport Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting has received 9 FEMA grants totaling $17,998,176.3 in cumulative AFG and SAFER awards across FY2005–2021 (sum of all recorded award years, not a single-year figure). The most recent award year in our extract is FY2021.

How many fire departments are in Louisiana?

Louisiana has 786 fire departments with 20,402 total personnel. 34% are volunteer departments.

Related guides

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