With those funds, the committee chose Vertex Co. of Weymouth as project manager and Context Architecture of Boston as architectural designer to develop a preliminary schematic layout of the building, fire station committee co-chair Bill Cantor said.  

The goal is to present an article that proposes funding to take the project further at this spring’s town meeting. “We don’t have a number yet,” he said.

The truck is an Enforcer Chassis Pumper Tanker Combo, and it cost more than $500,000 dollars.

It can hold up to  2,500 gallons of water and release more than 1,200 gallons per minute. It can also hold 20 gallons of foam.  

The department currently has 13 water apparatuses in its fleet, but they felt it was time to upgrade the fleet with a more modern and efficient one.