UPDATED: Roly Poly Building To Serve as Temporary Home for Decatur’s First Responders
Decatur Metro | December 22, 2010
UPDATE: City Manager Peggy Merriss tells DM that no Decatur fire trucks will actually be relocated to the Roly Poly site, but instead will all be located at Fire Station #2 in Oakhurst.
Roly Poly will house four staff members, along with the “first responder Expedition truck (2 people) and the air and light truck (2 people)”, as Scott mentioned in the comments.
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The new Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch site reports that while renovations are being made to Decatur’s Fire Station #1 along Trinity Place, two of the city’s fire trucks and some of its firefighters will relocate to the old site of Roly Poly sandwich shop along Church Street to service the northside of the city.
I guess if we can temporarily run city hall out of a meat locker, we can operate a fire department out of a sandwich shop, right?!
The city purchased the Roly Poly site back in October 2008 as part of the Decatur Cemetery master plan to widen the Church Street entrance.
Looks like the little ol’ Roly Poly building will serve one final function before it’s ultimately torn down.
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Hmmm. The way I heard it is that only EMS-type folks were going to the Roly Poly. No firefighters. Anyone know for sure?
I’ll check with the city.
Is it strange to name a sandwich shop after the common name for wood lice ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse) ?
Ooops , remove end paren to make link work -try this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse
I miss Roly Poly
Me, too. Sigh.
Toni Dixon, Decatur FD chief, said a few fire trucks would
be moved to Roly Poly. Hmmm. THX for posting.
Simple misunderstanding– simple enough to fix. EMS vehicles are trucks. The big red fire engines wouldn’t fit into the parking area. Heck, they’re almost the size of the building!
Decatur’s fire engines are white. Still wouldn’t fit, though.
Steve- You’re right! Thanks for the correction!
( White fire engine/red fire engine… dang fine firemen… um… distracted maybe?)
I just love saying, “The Roly Poly Building.” Wouldn’t it be fun to be able to tell people who ask you where you work, “Oh, I work in the Roly Poly Building.” Hee-hee!
Hey, they may as well get some use out of it before it gets demolished. Good on the City for thinking of it.
It was also used as the temporary cemetery office while the other one was being renovated.
It IS fun to say!
Working there? You’d sure have to stay fit to avoid the teasing! :0)