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.

I’ve received two reports in the last forty-eight hours that the little Roly Poly building on the edge of the cemetery at 811 Church Street has finally been vacated.

We’ve been anticipating this since August 2008, when the city purchased the building so it could be razed to increase the width of the cemetery’s Church Street entrance.

The only question remaining is whether Roly Poly will reopen elsewhere.  Lyn Menne reports that last she heard they wouldn’t.  However, a note on the Roly Poly website states “Relocating. Reopening Feb 2010″.

Only time will tell!