BUTLER TWP — A firetruck, a police cruiser and even an armored vehicle were sent to Butler Township Park on Tuesday evening, Aug. 5, but the only thing they responded to was their community.

The township was host to its part of National Night Out, an event that gives community members, especially children, the opportunity to meet, learn from and interact with first responders in a nonemergency environment.

Chief Mike Schmidt of the Butler Township Volunteer Fire District said the event was slightly modified this year, as it was hosted at the park instead of in one of the township’s neighborhoods to create a more centralized location.

“We do this night and they take us to a neighborhood each year. Like one year we were in Meadowood,” he said. “They more so assigned us a street, hoping to

See Full Page