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Combination · Lakewood Township — Fire District No. 1 (township-wide)

Lakewood Fire District No. 1

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 15006

8/22 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 · 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
12 career on duty per shift (3 officers + 9 firefighters)Verified

Official: 'three officers and nine firefighters on duty each of four shifts. The career fire stations are manned 24/7.' Department-wide per-shift complement, 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 (6 facts)
  • Career / volunteer / combination
    combinationVerified
  • Department-wide minimum daily staffing
    12 career on duty per shift (3 officers + 9 firefighters)Verified
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    48 personnelPartial
  • Stations
    7 stationsPartial
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $12,374,592 USDVerified
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    135,158 residentsPartial

Funding

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

Operating budget
$12.4MVerified
Fire district adopted budget

FY2024 adopted fire district budget — Total Appropriations $12,374,592. A FULL district appropriation (not a personnel-only line).

Department revenue
$12.3MVerified
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
92Partial

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
48Partial
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
7Partial
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
3Partial
Effective year
2,024Partial

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

No public grant records found.

Transparency

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

43/100Minimal3/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published
  • Call volume published (not published)
  • ISO/PPC published
  • Annual report published (no public source found)
  • Grant data found (not published)
  • Form 990 found (not published)