 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reid Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reid at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. With Hillbilly Days quickly approaching, the Pikeville Fire Department is gearing up to ensure a fun and safe festival. It all gets started on Wednesday. Remember the vendors come out. The fire department is out assisting the chamber as well as city officials and getting the vendors where they need to get at and making sure that everything is safe on the street level. We'll also have an EMS cart as well as a fire cart down inside the Carnival area because the Carnival will get started on Wednesday night. We'll have personnel down there inside the Carnival area just in case anything were to happen. Our personnel will be downtown. Thursday, from daylight to dark, our crews will be downtown. We'll have two EMS crews as well as a fire crew. Two fire crews downtown have people walking throughout the event. Thursday, Friday and Saturday as well. EMS and fire crews will be located throughout the festival to ensure safety for festival goers. There will be two EMS crews on Division and College Street and a fire crew at the foot of the 99. The biggest thing is it's April. You never know if it's going to be cold, if it's going to be warm. It's going to be raining or not. The biggest thing is to look at the weather prior to coming to town. See what the weather is going to do and if you need to pack extra clothes with you then that's perfectly fine. Just take them with you that way that you have them. Stay hydrated. If it's hot outside, stay hydrated. Drink plenty of fluids to be able to keep yourself hydrated because whenever that sun's beating down on us and we're in the midst of hillbilly days, it can catch up to us. Take frequent breaks if you need to while you're walking. Our crews are going to be there so if anyone does happen they need to call 911 or come to our location where we're at. It is also recommended to take photos of your group to assist in a search if your party gets separated. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.