The South Glastonbury Volunteer Fire Department was established on September 28, 1927.  Herbert Clark was the first Fire Chief of the South Glastonbury Volunteer Fire Department.  Joseph Gordon served as the 1st Assistant Chief, with Ralph Tryon serving as 2nd Assistant Chief, Jim Killam as Treasurer and Stanley Sheffield as Secretary. 

The South Glastonbury Volunteer Fire Department operated a 1928 pumper and a car (Buick) for Chief Clark was purchased.  At the end of the war, the department obtained through the federal government a 1943 Chevy pumper and a 1939 Chevy rescue/service truck.  The South Glastonbury Volunteer Fire Department stored its equipment in a garage that was owned by the South Glastonbury Community Club. 

While it was the objective of the Fire Commission in 1940 to improve the fire department’s infrastructure, it was not until 1948 that a fire station was built in South Glastonbury.  Today, the Glastonbury Fire Department still operates out of the building that was built in 1948.  However, the building has been renovated twice and is considerable larger than the initial building that was constructed.

In 1943, when the Glastonbury Fire Department was formally established by merging the town’s three independent fire departments into one agency, the South Glastonbury Volunteer Fire Department became the Glastonbury Fire Department's Company 2.

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