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Career · City of Jersey City (Dept. of Public Safety, Division of Fire)

Jersey City Fire Department

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 09006

9/22 evidence fields have a public source · latest source 2025. 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
4 per companyVerified

Minimum 1 officer + 3 firefighters per company; 28 companies on duty daily.

Assessment · baseline company staffing
Meets baseline company staffing benchmark

Disclosed on-duty staffing (4 per company) meets or exceeds the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company, per City of Jersey City. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. Benchmark comparison only — not a legal compliance finding.

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

Baseline company-staffing benchmark only. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed. NFPA 1750 is a consensus standard unless adopted by the local Authority Having Jurisdiction.

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
    677 personnelVerified
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    0 membersVerified
  • Stations
    16 stationsPartial
  • Annual incidents/calls
    20000 calls/yrPartial
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $81,090,259 USDVerified
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    302,284 residentsVerified

Funding

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

Operating budget
$81.1MVerified
Fire S&W + OE

CY2025 adopted appropriation within CAPS: “Fire & Emergency Services” Salaries & Wages $78,910,076 + Other Expenses $2,180,183 = $81,090,259. Read from the PDF text layer; the document carries a CERTIFICATION OF ADOPTED BUDGET and is titled “A Resolution to Adopt the Calendar Year 2025 Municipal Budget” (approved 2025-09-17). CALENDAR-YEAR basis confirmed — Jersey City moved off a State Fiscal Year at its FY2010 transition budget and has been on a calendar year since CY2011. CROSS-CHECKED TWICE: (1) the 2024 comparative column ($77,096,506 / $1,806,302) exactly matches the separately retrieved CY2024 adopted budget; (2) the amendment table inside the same resolution shows Fire S&W moving from $78,484,608 as introduced to $78,910,076 as adopted, reconciling to Sheet 15b. NOTHING TO EXCLUDE: there is no Uniform Fire Safety Act / Bureau of Fire Prevention line in the CY2025 budget (the CY2024 budget carried one at FCOA 25-266 — a different code — at $0, and it was dropped entirely for CY2025); despite the “Fire & Emergency Services” caption there is no separate EMS appropriation at 25-260/25-261 and no 25-242 line, so 25-265 is the sole fire appropriation. Dispatch (25-271), OEM (25-268), Public Safety Director (25-270) and Police (25-240) are separate FCOAs and are excluded. NOT the UFB-7 figure: the 2025 UFB-7 “Fire Fighters” Total Personnel Cost is $114,771,115.02 fully loaded (base $77,146,526.43 + OT $585,000 + pension $22,711,937.38 + health $13,202,454.58 + taxes $1,125,196.63) — that is not an appropriation and is not used here.

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
268Partial

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
677Verified
Volunteer members
0Verified
Minimum staffing
4Verified
Station staffing
No public source found
Vacancies
No public source found
Overtime spend
No public source found

Readiness

Public readiness evidence.

Stations
16Partial
Apparatus
28Partial
Annual call volume
20,000Partial
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
$8.8MVerified
  • FEMA AFG · 2024 · Assistance to Firefighters Grant — equipment$853,636
  • FEMA SAFER · 2019 · Fund 54 additional firefighters over 3 years$6,693,300
  • FEMA AFG · 2019 · Equipment: extractors, extrication sets, thermal imagers, radios$1,129,091
  • DHS Port Security (PSGP) · 2019 · Fireboat maintenance$1,000,000

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 (not published)
  • Annual report published (no public source found)
  • Grant data found
  • Form 990 found (not published)