Chief Trask said that driver was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries. His car appears to be totaled and the fire truck may be a total loss as well.“Damage wise, we believe the vehicle is probably a total loss. We have a lot of structural damage to the vehicle as well as the frame,” he said.

Trask said he hopes the firetruck will be covered by insurance. If not, he may have to turn to the city for help. He said it’ll be a while before they have a new truck out on the roads.

The new Quint will replace a 2001 American LaFrance Quint, which had racked up more than 90,000 firefighting miles in its time, O’Donnell noted.

“The American LaFrance has really outlived its usefulness to the community. Trucks are just like us, the older we get the more times we have to go see the doctor; the older a fire truck gets, the more times it has to go see the mechanic,” O’Donnell pointed out. “The manufacturer is now out of business. When the truck breaks down it’s very hard to find parts for it.”

Anchored by a Typhoon Chassis, the Quint sports a Hale 1500 GPM Pump, 78-foot aluminum aerial ladder and can handle 500 gallons of water. The total cost of the project is $837,214, O’Donnell had said in June.