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Let’s commemorate National Fire Prevention Month this October with some local fire department history. In this April 1957 photograph, the Town of Blacksburg is receiving delivery of a new fire truck. (This image from the D. D. Lester Collection and many more are available from the Montgomery Museum of Art & History.)