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Lebanon Daily Digest Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Ty's Take

There's something honest about a small town buying a new fire truck. It's not glamorous—nobody runs it as their lead story in the big papers—but it means the city council looked at the numbers, understood what they had was aging out, and decided Lebanon's worth protecting right. When you've got a manufacturing corridor running through here, when you've got families spread across county roads and up through the lake country, when fire can move faster than help can arrive, a modern engine isn't just equipment. It's the difference between a bad day and a catastrophe. The old rig served its time. This one will serve ours.

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Full Story: Lebanon pushes in new fire truck

Lebanon Fire Department celebrated the arrival of a new 100-foot ladder truck Monday evening with a traditional push-in ceremony at Fire Station 3, replacing a 23-year-old apparatus that had become unreliable and difficult to maintain. The state-of-the-art truck features modern safety upgrades...

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