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To: blebovits who wrote (37)2/11/2003 2:34:05 PM
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O F T H E D A Y

Today you'll find this remarkable light bulb burning

bright at a fire station in Livermore, California. It

hasn't been turned off since 1901. The Guinness Book of

Records, Ripley's Believe It Or Not and General

Electric agree the bulb, made of tungsten and of unknown

wattage, is the longest-living in history, despite two

moves and a few power outages during its lifetime.

The bulb was donated to the department in 1901 by Dennis

Bernal, a pioneer in the area who owned the Livermore

Power and Water Co.

It was hung as a night light in a downtown garage that

served as both a police and fire department five

years before the great San Francisco earthquake and fire

in 1906. A few years later, the bulb found its way to

the "new" pre-Depression City Hall that also housed the two

departments and twenty-odd years ago was moved for

a final time to Station One in Livermore.

Successive fire chiefs have regarded it as their talisman.

"Nobody wants that darn bulb to go out on their watch,"

says fire chief

Gary Stewart. "If that thing goes out while I'm still

chief it will be a career's worth of bad luck." Previous

chiefs have had standing orders that if any firefighter,

for whatever reason, accidentally broke the light they

would suddenly find plenty of time to update their resumes.
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