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Career · Cherry Hill Township — Fire District No. 13 (township-wide)

Cherry Hill Fire District No. 13

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 04130↗

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 assessment
Governing benchmark
NFPA 1750:2026 · career-department provisions (Ch. 4–6)
NFPA 1750:2026, career-department provisions (Ch. 4–6, §1.3)↗
Baseline minimum: 4 on-duty per company (baseline)
Higher (zone/hazard) minimum: not assessed (needs sourced zone/hazard evidence)
Publicly reported on-duty staffing
3 per company (officially 3–4, incl. company officer)Partial↗

Official: 'six fire companies, each with three to four firefighters including a company officer ... on-duty 24/7.' The disclosed floor of 3 per company is below the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4; value recorded as the stated minimum of the 3–4 range.

Assessment · baseline company staffing
Below applicable company staffing benchmark

Disclosed on-duty staffing (3 per company (officially 3–4, incl. company officer)) is below the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company, per Cherry Hill Township / Fire District No. 13. 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.

Not assessed
  • 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 (7 facts)
  • Career / volunteer / combination
    careerVerified↗
  • Minimum engine staffing
    3 per company (officially 3–4, incl. company officer)Partial↗
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    35 membersPartial↗
  • Stations
    6 stationsPartial↗
  • Annual incidents/calls
    17500 calls/yrPartial↗
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $32,945,753 USDVerified↗
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    74,553 residentsPartial↗

Funding

Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.

Operating budget
$32.9MVerified↗
Fire district adopted budget

FY2025 adopted fire district budget — Total Appropriations $32,945,753. A FULL district appropriation (not a personnel-only line).

Department revenue
$27.9MVerified↗
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
442Partial↗

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.

Career staff
No public source found
Volunteer members
35Partial↗
Minimum staffing
No public source found
Station staffing
No public source found
Vacancies
No public source found
Overtime spend
No public source found

Readiness

Public readiness evidence.

Stations
6Partial↗
Apparatus
No public source found
Annual call volume
17,500Partial↗
EMS share of calls
No public source found
Avg response time
No public source found
Mutual-aid dependence
No public source found

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
$4.5MVerified↗
  • FEMA SAFER · 2022 · Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (EMW-2022-FF-01604)$2,641,608↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2022 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2022-FG-07239)$385,404↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2022 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2022-FG-09117)$337,848↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2021 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2021-FG-10524)$314,416↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2020 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2020-FG-20068)$301,769↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2019 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2019-FG-02451)$176,423↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2023 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant (EMW-2023-FG-06113)$175,787↗
  • DHS Port Security (PSGP) · 2025 · Port security (EMW-2025-PU-05474)$61,215↗
  • DHS Port Security (PSGP) · 2020 · Port security (EMW-2020-PU-00532)$54,130↗
  • DHS Port Security (PSGP) · 2021 · Port security (EMW-2021-PU-00237)$25,982↗

Transparency

What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.

86/100Strong6/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published
  • Call volume published
  • ISO/PPC published
  • Annual report published
  • Grant data found
  • Form 990 found (not published)