St. Joseph, MO- Trails West!® 2015 is helping the St. Joseph Firefighters celebrate its 150th anniversary at the festival this year.

The Allied Arts Council is urging people to bring the kids out to the festival to see one of the old museum fire trucks and interact with the firefighters themselves.

The St. Joseph Firefighters will have activities throughout the day for children, including a relay using bucket gear, and will also have the kids participate in a bucket brigade.

“A bucket brigade is how in the old days they would get water to fire. Men and women would line up from a water supply and fill buckets up and pass them along throwing water on the fire,” explained George Albert, Captain of the St. Joseph Fire Department.

The firefighters will be out during the listed timeslots on Saturday, August 22: 11:05-11:30 a.m., 1:00- 1:15 p.m., 2:45- 3:00 p.m., 5:15- 5:30 p.m. and 6:45- 7:00 p.m.