Perth Amboy 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 assessmentOfficial 2020 Annual Report: the department states staffing levels 'have reached the minimum requirements' of the national company-staffing standard in effect at the time (predecessor to NFPA 1750:2026), with each company staffed at four firefighters.
Disclosed on-duty staffing (4 per company) meets or exceeds the NFPA 1750:2026 baseline of 4 per company, per City of Perth Amboy Fire Department. 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.
- 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)
- Career / volunteer / combination
- careerVerified↗
- Minimum engine staffing
- 4 per companyVerified↗
- Active roster — careerroster, not on-duty staffing
- 84 personnelVerified↗
- Stations
- 1 stationsVerified↗
- Adopted fire-department budget
- $8,212,847 USDVerified↗
- Population / jurisdiction served
- 55,855 residentsVerified↗
Funding
Public funding identified — blank means no public source found, not $0.
- Operating budget
- $8.2MVerified↗
- 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
- 147Partial↗
CY2025 “Fire Department” (FCOA 25-265): Salaries & Wages $7,932,971.50 + Other Expenses $279,875.00 = $8,212,846.50. A real fire appropriation line (prior-year 2024 column: $7,987,798). Excludes the separate Uniform Fire Safety Act lines (S&W $485,730 + OE $50,950).
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
- 84Verified↗
- 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
- 1Verified↗
- 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.
Grants
Grant awards identified in public records — an empty list means none were found, not that none exist.
Transparency
What this department publicly publishes — a data-availability measure, separate from any fire-outcome score.
- Budget published
- Staffing published
- Call volume published (no public source found)
- ISO/PPC published
- Annual report published (no public source found)
- Grant data found
- Form 990 found (not published)