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Career · City of Clifton

Clifton Fire Department

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 16020

9/22 evidence fields have a public source · latest source 2026. 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

Not publicly disclosed — no cited on-duty figure. Roster headcount is not on-duty staffing and is not used here.

Assessment · baseline company staffing
Not publicly disclosed

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.

Not assessed
  • 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 (7 facts)
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    140 personnelPartial
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    0 membersPartial
  • Stations
    6 stationsVerified
  • Annual incidents/calls
    5820 calls/yrPartial
  • EMS share of calls
    43% %Partial
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $17,569,500 USDVerified
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    90,296 residentsVerified

Funding

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

Operating budget
$17.6MVerified
Fire S&W + OE

Fire operating appropriation: S&W $16,805,000 + OE $636,500 (within CAPS) + $128,000 (excluded, offset by revenue). Excludes the citywide, un-split PFRS pension line.

Department revenue
$315,000Partial
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
195Partial

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
140Partial
Volunteer members
0Partial
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
6Verified
Apparatus
No public source found
Annual call volume
5,820Partial
EMS share of calls
43%Partial
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
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.

Total grants identified
No public source found

No public grant records found.

Transparency

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

43/100Minimal3/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published (not published)
  • Call volume published (not published)
  • ISO/PPC published
  • Annual report published (no public source found)
  • Grant data found
  • Form 990 found (not published)