Paterson Fire Department
7/22 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 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 (5 facts)
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $47.8MVerified↗
- 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
- 299Partial↗
CY2025 adopted “Division of Fire” appropriation within CAPS: Salaries & Wages $46,000,000 + Other Expenses $1,766,213 = $47,766,213. Extracted from the PDF text layer and cross-validated against the CY2024 adopted budget, whose Division of Fire lines ($43,000,000 + $1,766,213) match this document's 2024 comparative column. EXCLUDES “911 — Salaries & Wages — Fire” $374,661, a dispatch line under a different FCOA (25-251) and outside CAPS. Paterson publishes no Uniform Fire Safety Act / fire-official appropriation line. Paterson is the largest of NJ's mid-size career departments here (358 budgeted firefighters vs Camden 195, Bayonne 178), consistent with this scale.
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.
Readiness
Public readiness evidence.
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
- $18.0MPartial↗
Transparency
What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.
- Budget published
- Staffing published (not published)
- Call volume published (not published)
- ISO/PPC published (no public source found)
- Annual report published (not published)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (not published)