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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)