DETAILS: Castle Shannon Firemen's Carnival 2013

Folks from around Pittsburgh's South Hills area will descend on the Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Department grounds from Monday, July 29, to Saturday, Aug. 3, for an 80th annual Firemen's Carnival, starting nightly at 7.

Castle Shannon Fire services Castle Shannon Borough and Baldwin Township, but the event (at 3600 Library Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15234) routinely attracts guests from nearby Bethel Park, Mt. Lebanon, Whitehall and Dormont boroughs and other neighborhoods.

Once again this year, the Firemen's Carnival will feature food, games, rides and free parking. Parking space in the Castle Shannon Fire parking lot is limited, however. Additional parking is available along Willow Avenue behind the fire department grounds, as well as along Library Road (Route 88).

Games consist of poker tables, large wheels of chance, a duck pond and much more, including the carnival's famous car raffle.

This year, the first-place winner of the car raffle will receive any vehicle from Rohrich Chevrolet priced up to $30,000, or $19,000 in cash. The second-place winner will receive $7,000 in cash. Tickets cost $1 each and will be sold up to 30 minutes prior to a drawing on Aug. 3 at the conclusion of the carnival. Addresses and/or phone numbers on the winning tickets will be used to verify the winners. Winners' names will be advertised on an electronic sign outside of the fire station, on www.csvfd.org and at the fire department's business office. Read the raffle's official rules here.

Rides include cars, cups, the "Mad" Hornet, a ferris wheel, a paratrooper and a merry-go-'round.

The food for sale includes hamburgers, hot dogs, hot sausage sandwiches, nachos, provolone sticks, French fries, soft pretzels, funnel cakes, snow cones, ice cream, frozen dots, cotton candy, flavored slush drinks and more.