Cpl. Eduardo Mendoza, a detective with the Jennings Police Department, shows children a portable scope that police use to search vehicles for contraband Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. Police officers, firefighters, ambulance attendants, rescue workers, construction workers and more were on hand to demonstrate how vehicles and equipment work in various jobs.

Elliot Scola, 5, of Scott and his brother, Anderson, 3, look at construction equipment on the back of a trailer on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. Children got the unique experience to touch emergency and construction vehicles and equipment.

Payton Duhon, 8, Kamiya McDowell, 2, and Bentley Citizens, 5, all of Jennings pose for a photo on the rear of a fire truck Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. The event gave children a chance to get up close and personal with emergency and construction vehicles and equipment like fire trucks, police cars, ambulance, dump trucks, tractors and more.

Hazel Duplechin of the Jennings Fire Department, shows Joseph Harrington, 19, of Welsh one of the department's emergency rescue vehicles Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. The event gave visitors an opportunity to get close and learn about the different types of emergency and construction vehicles.

Bennett Guillory, 2, and his siblings Colten, 10, Maddox, 4 and Ana, 7 check out a Kubota tractor on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. The free event gave children an opportunity to see various emergency and construction vehicles up close and from the inside.

Ross Landry, 15, of Bill's Wrecker Service in Jennings gives three-year-old Jrue LaVergne a tour of a heavy duty wreck on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. Children were encouraged to touch, climb and explore emergency and construction vehicles and equipment.

Children play a football video game out of the back of the Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff;'s Office Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) truck on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. More than 200 children attended the event which featured police vehicles, fire trucks, ambulances, dump trucks, tow trucks, a rescue boat and more.

Julia Sonnier, 7, and Eli Landry, 1, of Jennings sit on a dump truck on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. The family fun event offered opportunities for children to explore, climb and touch emergency vehicles, big trucks and heavy machinery.

Charlie and Molly Klein of Roanoke sit in the driver's seat of a U.S. Coast Guard boat on display Saturday during the Touch a Truck event at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park in Jennings. Children of all ages got a hands-on experience with vehicles and heavy equipment of all kinds.