Community Invited to Celebrate First Million Hours of Service of Livermore Centennial Light Bulb

Announcement submitted by Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department:

On Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department will be hosting an event to celebrate the first million hours of service of the Livermore Centennial Light Bulb at Fire Station Six, 4550 East Ave, Livermore CA.

The free community celebration is family friendly and open to the public and will include vintage and antique fire apparatus, history mobile, fire safety house, displays, music, books and T-shirt sales, and a BBQ hosted by the LPFD Firefighter Foundation.

The light bulb, continuously glowing, has served as a night light in the fire station since 1901. This year’s celebration will mark another benchmark for this light bulb, “A Million Hours of Service.” Included in the celebration will be the release of a NEW historical book about the bulb.

The light is never turned off and has a webcam so the light can be viewed on the Internet twenty-four hours a day. It is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and numerous publications from around the world.

Over 2,000 community members and people from around the bay area are expected to attend the event. Money raised from shirts, books, and BBQ sales will benefit the Livermore-Pleasanton Firefighters Foundation, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 that supports, injured and fallen firefighters, the burn foundation and local charities in the Tri-Valley.

Editor’s Note:

What was thought to be the end of an era for the world-famous Centennial Bulb in 2013 was a false alarm when the bulb flickered back to life. The cause? Fire officials told Patch in a previous article the light appeared to be out when the uninterrupted power supply had failed. Once fire crews swapped the power source, the light was back on.

Full story here:

• World’s Longest Burning Light Bulb Out... But Only Overnight

Click here to check out the bulb cam.

Photo screenshot courtesy of bulb cam.

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