The Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance and the Convention and Visitors Bureau is asking Fort Dodge businesses to post signs welcoming the “Fireball Run” Wednesday.

The Convention and Visitors Bureau office will be closed all day; the Growth Alliance office will be closed at 3 p.m.

The adventure/reality television series will make an overnight stop in Fort Dodge while filming Season 11, which will air a year from now.

Forty teams are expected to begin arriving in Fort Dodge, starting mid-afternoon. They will embark on their mission projects around town, and will be passing out posters to help locate missing children from their home areas.

The main activity will be on Central Avenue from 10th Street west to the Karl L. King Memorial Park.

Fort Dodge Mayor Matt Bemrich and Matt Johnson from Fort Dodge Ford are participating.

• At 5:30 p.m., the Karl L. King Municipal Band will perform in front of the Fort Dodge Public Library in Karl L. King Memorial Park. Bring a lawn chair to this free concert.

The public events that will occur during the filming will result in the closure of parts of Central Avenue.

• Central Avenue from Sixth to Eighth street will be closed from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Central Avenue from Fourth to Ninth street will be closed from noon until 8 p.m.

• On Thursday Central Avenue from Ninth to 13th street will be closed from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

• There will be no parking on Central Avenue during the two events.