Picture Tolland: The 'Original' Station 240

TOLLAND, CT —The latest installment of the Picture Tolland series takes us to an original image of the Merrow Road firehouse, also known as Station 240.

According to the TFD historian, Station 240 was built on the corner of Rhodes Road and Merrow Road in 1965 to replace the Dunn Hill Road firehouse.

It's the oldest active firehouse in town.

The station was originally a two bay station, but over the years the Tolland Fire Department added more pieces of apparatus to the fleet. A third bay was added in 1973 prior to the delivery of a 2,000-gallon tanker. A fourth bay was added in 1981, along with a rear work room, to accommodate the fire apparatus from the Dunn Hill Road firehouse that closed that year.

A small extension to the rear of bays three and four was added in 1990 prior to the delivery of Tolland’s first aerial ladder truck in 1991.

A sixth addition added two bays to the rear in 2005 for the storage of a service truck and forestry truck.