New Brunswick Fire Department
5/22 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 assessmentNot publicly disclosed — no cited on-duty figure. Roster headcount is not on-duty staffing and is not used here.
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.
- 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 (4 facts)
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $12.4MVerified↗
- 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
- 219Partial↗
Adopted-budget “DEPARTMENT OF FIRE — Division of Fire” (FCOA 25-265): Salaries & Wages $12,031,173.98 + Other Expenses $322,137.40 = $12,353,311.38. A real fire appropriation line. Excludes the separate Uniform Fire Safety Act / Fire Official lines (S&W $297,765.77 + OE $31,038.22). The adopted-budget PDF is a scanned image with no text layer — figures were read visually from the rendered Sheet 15d of the official PDF linked from the Finance transparency page.
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
- 108Stale↗
- 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
- 3Partial↗
- 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
- 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 · 2007 · Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response$745,346↗
Transparency
What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.
- Budget published
- Staffing published (no public source found)
- Call volume published (no public source found)
- ISO/PPC published (no public source found)
- Annual report published (no public source found)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (no public source found)