The 9,000 square foot building is located at 865 White Mountain Highway, just up the street from the 65-year-old station it will replace. The old building no longer met building and safety code. The new $2.7 million building was designed by the architectural firm of Cowan-Goudreault of Concord, and Eckman Construction of Bedford was responsible for the build.

The $780,000 vehicle from Pierce Manufacturing Co., now the department's Truck 2, gleamed in the afternoon sunlight inside headquarters after its arrival on Friday. Delivery was expected a week ago, but was delayed three times by snowstorms.

The 2014 model has a 100-foot ladder, which operates differently than the previous Truck 2. Firefighters will be trained to use the ladder by a Wisconsin-based engineer over four days beginning Feb. 27, he said. Various equipment, already in the department's stock, will be installed in early- to mid-March. Czerwinski said the truck would be road-ready after that.

Authorities say Rezzonico was ejected from the truck and suffered a traumatic brain injury along with two broken legs and two broken shoulders. The woman had landed headfirst.

The fire truck was struck by a sedan traveling nearly 70 miles per hour, fire officials said.