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Career · City of East Orange

East Orange Fire Department

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 07050↗

5/22 evidence fields have a public source · latest source 2024. 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 (4 facts)
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    168 personnelPartial↗
  • Stations
    4 stationsVerified↗
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $21,957,811 USDVerified↗
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    71,844 residentsVerified↗

Funding

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

Operating budget
$22.0MVerified↗
Fire S&W + OE

Adopted-budget “DIVISION OF FIRE” (FCOA 25-265): Salaries & Wages $21,062,810.73 + Other Expenses $895,000.00 = $21,957,810.73. A real fire appropriation line. Excludes the separate “Uniform Fire Safety Act” fire-official S&W ($74,000).

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
306Partial↗

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
168Partial↗
Volunteer members
No public source found
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
4Verified↗
Apparatus
No public source found
Annual call volume
No public source found
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
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
$4.7MVerified↗
  • FEMA SAFER · 2015 · Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response$2,813,690↗
  • FEMA AFG · 2018 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment$122,865↗

Transparency

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

29/100Minimal2/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published (no public source found)
  • 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 (not published)
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