ANDERSON, Ind. — An Indiana community is rallying around a young woman and her family after her expensive cancer treatment interrupted major renovations on their home.

A local pizzeria will even deliver pizzas on fire trucks to help the fundraising efforts. Clay Sexton, who owns the area’s Greek’s Pizzeria, said his connection to the project comes through the local fire department.

In August 2014, 23-year-old nursing student Liz Callender was diagnosed with brain cancer. Doctors said the tumor, in front of her temporal lobe, was formed by oligodendroglia, a type of cell in the central nervous system. Surgery removed 80 to 90 percent of the tumor, and radiation and chemotherapy were used to treat what was left.

At the time, her mother, Tracy Callender, poured her savings for home renovations into medical care for her daughter. Now, the family’s community is banding together to help get their house finished.

The Callenders’ story made its way to Skip Ockomon, a sergeant with the Anderson, Indiana Fire Department and resonated with him, he said, because he has a young cousin who was diagnosed with brain cancer about four years ago. He formed a team of fellow firefighters and held fundraisers at local restaurants to gather donations to help with the home makeover and future care for Liz Callender.

Next month, Ockomon hopes a large group of people will gather at the Callenders’ home to put the finishing touches on the project: building a porch on the back of the structure. Workers from a local property improvement company will build the main structure and frame it, and volunteers will do the rest.

“Too many times, we take people for granted and all of a sudden, life hits you,” Ockomon told the Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin. “We’re trying to take the pressure off of Elizabeth and Tracy.”

Although Callender is cancer-free now, she faces the reality that her particular type of brain cancer will not go into remission. Because it is produced by her body, it can return at any time. She will have to be checked regularly for tumor growth for the rest of her life.

Life for Callender is now about moving on, as much as she can. Part of moving on for Callender’s family is finally finishing renovations on their house.

In addition to the delivery fundraiser, Sexton says his restaurant will also use its annual fundraising event later this month to help Callender and her family as well.

“We’re just one big family now,” Sexton said.

The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin contributed to this story.