Discussion has begun on a new first responders’ facility. It would house the Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services departments, all at one site.
The police station has been on Jesup Road since the early 1950s. Before that it shared space with government officials, in Town Hall.
That’s the handsome brick building on Post Road East we know today as Don Memo.
The lockup was downstairs, in the basement — where Walrus Alley is now.
The original town hall — and police station.
Before moving to Post Road East at Crescent Road, the main fire station was on Church Street.
Former Fire Department headquarters, on Church Lane. The original YMCA (now Anthropologie) is on the left.
You can still see its bones in the current tenant, Emmy Squared: Those were the 3 fire engine bays.
(Photo/Poppy Harrington, for Inklings)
Our EMS has shared space with the Police Department since its founding, over 40 years ago.
Long before that, the ambulance was operated by a private service. It was parked in a garage at the crest of the Post Road East hill — approximately where the Morgan Stanley office building is now.
You know — right across from fire headquarters.
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