Bloomfield Fire Department
8/22 evidence fields have a public source · latest source 2025. Blank fields mean no public source was found — never that a value is zero.
NFPA Staffing Benchmark
Staffing-only · not a response-time or legal assessmentStandard of Cover: 'Engine companies are staffed with a minimum of three personnel' (captain, engineer, firefighter); truck company staffed with 4. Engine minimum of 3 is below the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company.
Disclosed on-duty staffing (3 per engine company (truck company 4)) is below the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company (applied to the career companies), per Township of Bloomfield Fire Department. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. Benchmark comparison only — not a legal compliance finding.
- Higher-risk (zone/hazard) staffing requirement not assessed
- Effective response force not assessed
- Response-time performance not assessed
Baseline company-staffing benchmark only. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. NFPA 1750 is a consensus standard unless adopted by the local Authority Having Jurisdiction.
NFPA 1750:2026 is a consensus deployment standard, not automatically a legal mandate. A department is legally bound only where its Authority Having Jurisdiction has adopted it. This assesses baseline company staffing only — not higher zone/risk staffing, effective response force, or response-time performance — and is not a legal finding.
Operational facts found (8 facts)
- Career / volunteer / combination
- combinationVerified↗
- Minimum engine staffing
- 3 per engine company (truck company 4)Verified↗
- Department-wide minimum daily staffing
- 13 on duty daily (department-wide)Verified↗
- Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
- 72 personnelVerified↗
- Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
- 25 membersPartial↗
- Stations
- 4 stationsVerified↗
- Adopted fire-department budget
- $10,996,450 USDVerified↗
- Population / jurisdiction served
- 53,793 residentsVerified↗
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $11.0MVerified↗
- Department revenue
- No public source found
- Donations / fundraising
- No public source found
- IRS Form 990 revenue
- No public source found
- Grants received
- No public source found
- Capital / apparatus
- No public source found
- Funding per resident
- 204Partial↗
CY2025 adopted appropriation within CAPS: Fire Department Salaries & Wages $10,596,450 + Other Expenses $400,000 = $10,996,450. Read from the PDF text layer; the document is the state FAST certified-adopted artifact (municode 0702) carrying a CERTIFICATION OF ADOPTED BUDGET, adopted at the 2025-08-11 meeting. CROSS-CHECKED: the 2024 comparative column ($10,550,000 / $350,000) exactly matches the separately retrieved 2024 adopted budget. NOTHING TO EXCLUDE: the 25-265 pair is the ONLY fire appropriation in the current fund — “Uniform Fire Safety” appears exactly once in the 118-page budget and NOT as an appropriation (only in the Dedication by Rider list of dedicated trust revenues, N.J.S.A. 40A:4-39), and there is no Bureau of Fire Prevention, EMS (25-260/25-261) or 25-242 line. Combined police+fire pension lines (PFRS 36-475 $8,360,000; Consolidated 36-474 $14,341) are outside 25-265 and are not a fire appropriation. Bloomfield is a COMBINATION department but the budget carries one consolidated fire appropriation with no career/volunteer split. NOT the UFB-7 figure: the 2025 UFB-7 “Fire Fighters” Total Personnel Cost is $17,330,802 fully loaded — not an appropriation, and not used here. 2025 is the most recent ADOPTED budget (the 2026 budget was still only introduced).
Budget figures are public evidence, not fully normalized spending comparisons. Each figure is labelled with the basis it was published on — budgets are only comparable where the basis matches.
Staffing
Public staffing evidence — blank means no public source found.
Readiness
Public readiness evidence.
ISO / PPC
ISO Public Protection Classification is not nationally complete; blank means no public rating found.
- PPC rating
- 2Partial↗
- Effective year
- No public source found
Grants
Grant awards identified in public records — an empty list means none were found, not that none exist.
- Total grants identified
- No public source found
- FEMA AFG · 2019 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment/apparatus$441,318↗
Transparency
What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.
- Budget published
- Staffing published
- Call volume published (no public source found)
- ISO/PPC published
- Annual report published (no public source found)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (not published)