A New Brunswick man has been sent for a psychiatric assessment after he allegedly smashed his truck into the Nackawic Fire Hall, igniting a destructive fire.

Edwin Samuel Bradley spoke as he arrived at Woodstock provincial court on Thursday.

“I’m just getting’ railroaded,” he said. “I’m not going to go the insane route.”

Bradley objected to the court’s ordering of a 30-day psychiatric assessment. His lawyer said the assessment will focus on two points.

“First of all, it’s to evaluate if he’s fit to stand trial, and the other is to evaluate his criminal responsibility,” said defence lawyer Angele Normand. “These are the two questions that the court wants the professionals over in Campbellton to answer.”

The 56-year-old Nackawic man is charged with impaired driving, refusal to provide a breath sample and breaching his conditions.

The charges stem from a fire at the fire hall in Nackawic Monday morning. Police and fire crews responded to the building around 7:30 a.m.

Firefighters scrambled to save their equipment but when the garage doors failed to open, they crashed their fire trucks through them.

The building and much of the equipment, including three fire trucks, were significantly damaged in the blaze.

The town hall attached to the fire station was also damaged in the fire. The town offices are now making a temporary home inside Nackawic’s arena.

“What we concentrated on first was getting our treasurer’s office up and running and that’s what we have at the moment,” says Duncan Walker of the Town of Nackawic. “So our financial systems are back in place and we’re able to take our water-sewer payments as usual.”

The town hall could relocate again to a mobile office in the arena parking lot, which could be its home for up to a year.

Bradley is due back in court on Aug. 22.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Andy Campbell