Department profile
OtherEMS ProviderSands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services
Gwinn, MI · Marquette County. Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services is a fire department and 30 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.
- 30
- Total personnel
- Not reported
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Michigan average.
- Top 48%
- national personnel size
- +36%
- vs. Michigan 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.
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.
Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services is a fire department serving Gwinn, MI (Marquette County) and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,687 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #10,687 of 22,440
- MI personnel rank #271 of 1,008
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 17 other listed departments in Marquette County
Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
30 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 05212 · Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services, MI 30 personnel
PERS-SMALL · STA-UNK · TYPE-OTHER · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-PART
- PERS-SMALL 30
- STA-UNK Stations pending
- TYPE-OTHER Uncoded type
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-MID #10,687
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Flint City Volunt…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-PART 3/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Flint City Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+ 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 MI department.
- Sands Township Fi… (this dept) 30
- High Lebanon Rural Fir…, MO 30
- Near Flint City Volunt…, AL 30
- Near Richland Area, OH 30
- Near Friendsville Volu…, TN 30
Department Profile
- Type
- Location
- Gwinn, MI
- County
- Marquette County
- FDID
- 05212
Staffing vs the Michigan average
How Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services's personnel count compares to the typical department in Michigan. In-state it ranks #271 of 1,008 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,687 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- Not reported
- State fire deaths/yr
- 112
- MI departments
- 1,274
County roster fringe
Sands Township Fire Department / Sands Township Emergency Medical Services is 6.3% of Marquette County roster mass
The county lists 19 departments totaling 473 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 79% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
Photo-finish peer: Flint City Volunteer Fire Department, AL (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide departments near 30 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every MI department.