Camden 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 assessmentNot publicly disclosed — no cited on-duty figure. Roster headcount is not on-duty staffing and is not used here.
The governing standard is NFPA 1750:2026 (career-department provisions, Ch. 4–6), but no public source discloses actual on-duty staffing (minimum on-duty, per company, or per apparatus), so no meets/below verdict can be reached. Roster headcount is not on-duty staffing and is not used.
- Higher-risk (zone/hazard) staffing requirement not assessed
- Effective response force not assessed
- Response-time performance not assessed
Requires a cited public source stating minimum on-duty staffing or staffing per company. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed.
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 (6 facts)
- Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
- 195 personnelVerified↗
- Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
- 0 membersVerified↗
- Stations
- 5 stationsPartial↗
- Annual incidents/calls
- 10000 calls/yrPartial↗
- Adopted fire-department budget
- $22,963,500 USDVerified↗
- Population / jurisdiction served
- 71,791 residentsVerified↗
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $23.0MVerified↗
- 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
- 320Partial↗
FY2025 adopted appropriation within CAPS: Fire-Salaries $22,593,500 + Fire-Other Expenses $370,000 = $22,963,500 (2024 comparatives $23,046,300 + $412,000). Extracted from the PDF text layer. EXCLUDES Bureau of Fire Prevention S&W $859,500 + OE $22,000 = $881,500 — the fire-official/prevention function, excluded to match peer records that likewise exclude their Uniform Fire Safety Act lines (Fire + Bureau of Fire Prevention = $23,845,000 on a broader basis). SUPERSEDES a prior $40,786,226 figure that was the 2024 UFB-7 FULLY-LOADED personnel total. DECISIVE PROOF it was never an appropriation: the UFB-7 fire pension estimate $7,740,781 EXACTLY equals the separate PFRS line (FCOA 36-475) on the same adopted budget — the benefits are appropriated elsewhere. STRUCTURAL NOTE: the Sheet 15 heading “Department of Police and Fire” is legacy naming; Camden's FIRE service remains a City department (195 city firefighters in UFB-7). The 2013 transfer to the Camden County Police Department affected POLICE only — the city's Police-Salaries line is a vestigial $37,300 with no full-time officers. Camden's comparatively low figure reflects a genuinely smaller, heavily cut department, not a data error.
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
- No public source found
- Effective year
- No public source found
Grants
Grant awards identified in public records — an empty list means none were found, not that none exist.
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 (no public source found)
- Annual report published (no public source found)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (no public source found)