Book excerpt: Chronicles everything Leominster Fire -- it goes from the days of an all-call force to the building of the current headquarters in 1898; equipment modernization from horse-drawn apparatus to the first trucks, and photos of notable firefighters throughout. Includes details and photos of the city's biggest fires -- the great fire of 1873 that took out much of the area from Pleasant to Adams Streets and a blaze in 1954 from an explosion on Central Street that took out seven buildings--