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Passaic Fire Department

NJ DCA/NJFIRS FDID 16070↗

7/22 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 (5 facts)
  • Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
    108 personnelVerified↗
  • Active roster — volunteer / union membershiproster, not on-duty staffing
    0 membersVerified↗
  • Stations
    2 stationsPartial↗
  • Adopted fire-department budget
    $12,497,900 USDVerified↗
  • Population / jurisdiction served
    70,730 residentsVerified↗

Funding

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

Operating budget
$12.5MVerified↗
Fire S&W + OE

FY2026 adopted appropriation within CAPS: Fire Department Salaries & Wages $12,190,950 + Other Expenses $306,950 = $12,497,900. Read from the PDF text layer; the document is DocuSign-executed. THE “ROLLED INTO PUBLIC SAFETY” CLAIM IS FALSE: “PUBLIC SAFETY FUNCTIONS” is only a section HEADING that groups individually-itemized departments — Police (25-240), OEM (25-252), Fire (25-265) and Prosecutor (25-275) — and a discrete Fire Department 25-265 line with its own S&W and OE appears in every year checked (2024, 2025, 2026). NOTHING TO EXCLUDE: Passaic publishes no Uniform Fire Safety Act / Bureau of Fire Prevention appropriation (that phrase appears only in a dedicated-trust-fund rider), and no 25-242 or 25-251 line exists. ARP WRINKLE (matters for prior years): in 2024–2025 Passaic split fire salaries across the regular 25-265-1 S&W line AND a second “Salaries & Wages-ARP Funds” 25-265-1 line, so those years must be summed (2024 = $9,534,350 + $3,000,000 ARP + $282,100 OE = $12,816,450; 2025 = $13,388,500). By 2026 the ARP line is gone and fire S&W is a single clean line. SUPERSEDES $20,696,486, the 2024 UFB-7 fully-loaded total (components sum exactly, and its implied ~69% benefit loading matches Bayonne's 72%); benefits are appropriated in other citywide FCOA lines.

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
177Partial↗

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
108Verified↗
Volunteer members
0Verified↗
Minimum staffing
No public source found
Station staffing
No public source found
Vacancies
No public source found
Overtime spend
$1.0MVerified↗

Readiness

Public readiness evidence.

Stations
2Partial↗
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

No public grant records found.

Transparency

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

29/100Minimal2/7 items
  • Budget published
  • Staffing published
  • Call volume published (no public source found)
  • ISO/PPC published (no public source found)
  • Annual report published (no public source found)
  • Grant data found (no public source found)
  • Form 990 found (not published)
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