The Firehouse Light is an amazing TRUE story of a 4-watt lightbulb that has been burning in the Livermore, California firehouse for more than 110 years! That isn’t a typo!
The light bulb has been burning for 110 years, and it has never burned out!
No one knows why the bulb is still burning.
In Janet Nolan’s beautiful book The Firehouse Light, readers follow the journey of the lightbulb from 1901 through present day.
An afterward gives information about the man who donated the lightbulb to the fire department and the manufacturer of the bulb itself.
Most interesting to my son, was the website where you can go to see a live webcam of the actual light bulb. We checked it out last night -- and it is still lit! It hangs 25 feet above their firetruck -- over a century after it was first lit.
Amazing!
Check out the live webcam here:
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