Gibraltar Fire Company, located at 3351 Main St., Birdsboro, will host a free community event on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The highlight of the day will be the touch-a-truck event, which will feature fire apparatus from both Gibraltar Fire Company and Geigertown Fire Company. Robeson Township Police Department will also be on the scene, along with some race cars.

"We're basically just having an open, free-to-the-community, free-to-everybody event," said Bruce Mieczkowski, an organizer of the event.

Sticking with the emergency response theme, weather permitting, air medical personnel will fly into the station with a helicopter at 11 a.m., and Gibraltar's crew will be doing a vehicle rescue demonstration at noon. The crew will cut apart a car and demonstrate how they would save passengers inside of it in the event of a crash.

For the younger audience, there will be free face painting, a bounce house, water wars and a "battle of the barrels" event.

"Fire departments in the past have done battles of the barrel," Mieczkowski said. "There's a barrel that's on a cable, and there's one team on one end, one team on the other end, and whoever gets the barrel to the other end wins."

Free hot dogs will also be served to those in attendance. The Scouting America will also have a table at the event for those interested in joining. Most of the day's events are oriented toward children, a choice Mieczkowski said was intentional.

"We're trying to get them in and around the fire company and with the police," he said.

Along with Geigertown Fire Company, Gibraltar Fire Company serves a roughly 30-mile radius in Robeson Township. According to the township, Gibraltar has 50 volunteer members and has nine pump tanks and apparatus.