“Don’t worry, the light is still burning.”

Is there any more reassuring line than that one: “Don’t worry, the light is still burning.”

But the light that is still burning is not beckoning you back from the window of your home, sweet home.

The light that is still burning is in a fire station in Livermore, California. “Don’t worry, the light is still burning” is the headline that greets visitors to the homepage of this one light bulb. WWW.centennialbulb.org is the web site dedicated to keeping track of the world’s longest burning light-bulb.

The over-sized, orange-tinted, hand-blown lightbulb was first illumined at the Livermore, California fire station in 1901. Dennis Bernal, the owner of Livermore Power and Light and the manufacturer of the lightbulb, donated the bulb to the fire hall …