Brevard Art Museum once served as Eau Gallie's city hall, police department, and fire department. When a fire broke out, a siren on the three-story roof alerted local volunteers. Businessmen on Highland would push the fire truck out of the station onto Highland. During the Depression, the city lacked money for a new battery, so volunteers pushed the truck down Bud Yeager Drive and popped the clutch to start the engine. They started it this way for about a year before a new battery was purchased, and the truck always started and reached every call. Early residents also had to watch where they walked, as a revised Eau Gallie ordinance in 1907 declared in Section 3 that no horse, mule, or other animal could be ridden, led, driven, or allowed to stand on the town's sidewalks.