Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Romulus Volunteer Fire Department

Buhl, AL · Tuscaloosa County. Romulus Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department and 25 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.

25
Total personnel
Not reported
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Romulus Volunteer Fire Department pairs modest national personnel with a headcount above the Alabama average.

38th pct.
national personnel size
+47%
vs. Alabama average

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.

F
PlainFireData Composite Score
0/100
Romulus Volunteer Fire Department

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
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
25 personnel

Romulus Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Buhl, AL (Tuscaloosa County) and 25 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #13,910 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #13,910 of 22,440
  • AL personnel rank #331 of 733
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 27 other listed departments in Tuscaloosa County

Romulus Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

25 Top 62% higher than 38% 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 06319 · Romulus Volunteer Fire Department, AL 25 personnel

PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART

  • PERS-SMALL 25
  • STA-UNK Stations pending
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-LOWER #13,910
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cameron Rural Fir…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-PART 3/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Cameron Rural Fire Department Incorporated, NC (+ 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 AL department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Buhl, AL
FDID
06319

Staffing vs the Alabama average

How Romulus Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Alabama. In-state it ranks #331 of 733 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #13,910 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 47% above the state average
Stations
Not reported
State fire deaths/yr
84
AL departments
1,302

County roster fringe

Romulus Volunteer Fire Department is 4.2% of Tuscaloosa County roster mass

The county lists 33 departments totaling 602 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 48% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

Photo-finish peer: Cameron Rural Fire Department Incorporated, NC (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nationwide volunteer peers near 25 personnel

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