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Combination · Edison Township

Edison Division of Fire

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 12005

8/22 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 · combination-department provisions
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
32 career on duty daily (department-wide)Verified

Official: '32 on duty personnel 24 hours / 365 days a year' across 6 career stations. Department-wide daily total, not a per-company figure.

Assessment · baseline company staffing
Insufficient public evidence

On-duty staffing is disclosed as a department-wide daily total, not as a per-company figure the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline can be compared to. Department-wide staffing is never divided by stations/companies/apparatus/shifts, so no meets/below verdict is published.

Not assessed
  • Higher-risk (zone/hazard) staffing requirement not assessed
  • Effective response force not assessed
  • Response-time performance not assessed

A per-company on-duty figure is needed to render a baseline company-staffing verdict. 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)
  • Career / volunteer / combination
    combinationVerified
  • Department-wide minimum daily staffing
    32 career on duty daily (department-wide)Verified
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    145 personnelVerified
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    40 members (roster)Verified
  • Stations
    8 stationsPartial
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $23,591,736 USDVerified
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    110,018 residentsVerified

Funding

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

Operating budget
$23.6MVerified
Fire S&W + OE

Division of Fire Salaries & Wages $22,467,565.52 + Other Expenses $1,124,171 = $23,591,736.52 (single unified township line; Edison abolished its fire districts in 1958).

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
$6.0MVerified
Funding per resident
214Partial

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
145Verified
Volunteer members
40Verified
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
8Partial
Apparatus
11Partial
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
No public source found
  • FEMA SAFER · 2012 · Firefighter staffing (EMW-2012-FH-00245)$1,392,880
  • FEMA AFG · 2023 · Equipment/gear (EMW-2023-FG-07003)$188,407

Transparency

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

57/100Partial4/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published
  • Call volume published
  • ISO/PPC published (no public source found)
  • Annual report published (no public source found)
  • Grant data found
  • Form 990 found (not published)