Can you fire Touched:Connect() from LocalScripts?

I have two scripts that detect if a tool comes into contact with a maintenance panel. It works fine if both are scripts, however I want the script in the tool to be Local, so I can fire a remoteevent with the player's name.

Local/ToolScript:

script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Handle").Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") == nil then -- we make sure it's not a player tocuhed
		if  hit ~= nil and hit.Name == "MaintPanel" then
			MaintenanceEvent:FireServer(game.Players.LocalPlayer)
		end
	end 
end)

Server/PanelScript:

function receive(player)
	warn(player)
	--do stuff
end

MaintFire.OnServerEvent:Connect(receive())

Is there any way to make this work without BindableEvents?