Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Running Springs Fire Department

Running Springs, CA · San Bernardino County. Running Springs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 39 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.

39
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Running Springs Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount in line with the California average.

Top 29%
national personnel size
+5%
vs. California average
2
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.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
37/100
Running Springs 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 D
19.5 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
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
39 personnel · 2 stations

Running Springs Fire Department is a Career (Paid) department serving Running Springs, CA (San Bernardino County), with 2 stations and 39 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #6,596 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #6,596 of 22,440
  • CA personnel rank #279 of 721
  • 5.13 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 44 other listed departments in San Bernardino County

Running Springs Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

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

39 Top 29% higher than 71% 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 36190 · Running Springs Fire Department, CA 39 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 39
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #6,596
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Reedsville
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Reedsville Fire Department, WI (+ 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 CA department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY PAID
Location
Running Springs, CA
FDID
36190

Staffing vs the California average

How Running Springs Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in California. In-state it ranks #279 of 721 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #6,596 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 5% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
346
CA departments
1,309

County roster fringe

Running Springs Fire Department is 2.1% of San Bernardino County roster mass

The county lists 60 departments totaling 1,856 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 87% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.

5.13 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 39 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Reedsville Fire Department, WI (+0 personnel).

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

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Nationwide career peers near 39 personnel

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