Department profile
Career (Paid)EMS ProviderOld Town Fire Department and Rescue Service
Old Town, ME · Penobscot County. Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service is a Career (Paid) department, 1 station and 33 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.
- 33
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount well above the Maine average.
- Top 39%
- national personnel size
- +57%
- vs. Maine 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.
Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service is a Career (Paid) department serving Old Town, ME (Penobscot County), with 1 station and 33 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #8,818 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #8,818 of 22,440
- ME personnel rank #112 of 290
- 3.03 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 45 other listed departments in Penobscot County
Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
33 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 J0180 · Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service, ME 33 personnel · 1 station
PERS-SMALL · STA-1 · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-SMALL 33
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-CAREER Career
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #8,818
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aviston Fire Prot…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+ 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 ME department.
- Old Town Fire Dep… (this dept) 33
- High Brindle Ridge, KY 33
- Near Aviston Fire Prot…, IL 33
- Near Boling, TX 33
- Near Breese Volunteer…, IL 33
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY CAREER
- Location
- Old Town, ME
- County
- Penobscot County
- FDID
- J0180
Staffing vs the Maine average
How Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service's personnel count compares to the typical department in Maine. In-state it ranks #112 of 290 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #8,818 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 20
- ME departments
- 497
County roster fringe
Old Town Fire Department and Rescue Service is 3.2% of Penobscot County roster mass
The county lists 48 departments totaling 1,043 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 42% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
3.03 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 33 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Aviston Fire Protection District, IL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide career peers near 33 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ME department.