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Career · City of Hoboken (Division of Fire)

Hoboken Fire Department

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 09005

10/22 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 (6 facts)
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    127 personnelVerified
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    0 membersVerified
  • Stations
    4 stationsPartial
  • Annual incidents/calls
    5000 calls/yrVerified
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $20,415,053 USDVerified
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    60,419 residentsVerified

Funding

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

Operating budget
$20.4MVerified
Fire S&W + OE

CY2026 adopted appropriation within CAPS: Fire Salary & Wages $20,008,953 + Other Expenses $406,100 = $20,415,053. Hoboken's 25-265 line is unambiguous — it publishes NO Uniform Fire Safety Act appropriation and no civilian sub-line, so nothing is netted out (Uniform Fire Safety Act appears only as a revenue line, FCOA 08-106). CROSS-VERIFIED: this document's 2025 comparative ($19,915,146.02 / $385,000) exactly matches the independently-retrieved CY2025 adopted budget (verified directly at https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/58407e2ebca0e34c30a2d39c/68d5663bced70a0f9cf0bc7a_2025%20Adopted%20Budget%20and%20User%20Friendly%20Budget.pdf, Sheet 15d), whose CY2025 total is $20,300,146.02 — only 0.6% from the CY2026 figure. SUPERSEDES $33,241,128, the CY2025 UFB-7 fully-loaded total (components sum exactly); its pension sits in PFRS FCOA 36-475 ($12,993,000 citywide), outside 25-265. CITATION NOTE: Hoboken moved budget hosting to SharePoint, whose share links return an HTML login page to automated fetch; the stable public landing page is cited here, and the raw PDF resolves via the /_layouts/15/download.aspx?share=<TOKEN> form (tokens rotate, so they are not stored).

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
338Partial

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
127Verified
Volunteer members
0Verified
Minimum staffing
No public source found
Station staffing
No public source found
Vacancies
No public source found
Overtime spend
$905,000Verified

Readiness

Public readiness evidence.

Stations
4Partial
Apparatus
6Verified
Annual call volume
5,000Verified
EMS share of calls
No public source found
Avg response time
No public source found
Mutual-aid dependence
Participates in the UASI Metro Urban Search & Rescue Strike Team and the NJ Regional Fireboat Task Force.Verified

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
$1.3MVerified
  • FEMA SAFER · 2021 · Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response$1,177,988
  • FEMA AFG · 2023 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment$64,364
  • FEMA AFG · 2022 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment$47,124

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 (no public source found)