Lemon Grove Sheriff's Substation Reopens After 19 Months

Lemon Grove Sheriff's Substation reopens after 19 Months

San Diego Sheriff’s Lemon Grove Substation (Photo courtesy of the department) The Lemon Grove Sheriff’s Substation reopened Thursday after being closed since January 2024 due to flood damage. Sheriff Kelly Martinez and Mayor Alysson Snow participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony around noon. “We are excited to welcome our deputies and everyone in the sheriff’s office home,” Snow said. “Thank you for being here. Thank you for never relenting in…

The 2024 floods gutted the Lemon Grove sheriff’s substation. Deputies have finally moved back in.

It’s just an interior wall in the Sheriff’s Office substation in Lemon Grove. But on this day, it was a cascade of water from the roof. “I can’t even describe it. It looked like a waterfall. The whole wall,” sheriff’s Lt. Joe Barry recalled. The wall was one of many drenched areas — nearly the whole bottom floor of the substation Barry commands was under more than 3 inches of water. It just poured in, from the ceiling, from the walls, even from …