Blue Bulbs Lighten Heavy Hearts at Fargo PD
It’s a little blue lightbulb that’s suddenly become the most sought–after item in the entire region, and the blue lights honoring fallen Officer Jason Moszer are creating massive lines wherever they’re sold.
The blue bulbs have raised a pretty massive set of funds for Moszer’s family, to whom all the proceeds go.
It’s been tough even keeping the little blue bulbs in stock, let alone getting your hands on one.
At Fargo P.D, where they’re available for a free-will donation, 500 bulbs were gone in 20 minutes one morning this week.
The demand is sending a message to Moszer’s colleague that they really needed to hear this week.
“I started it at my house, first one in the neighborhood. Within 2 days, it was almost every house,” said Detective Joshua Loos, unpacking lightbulbs from delivery boxes as fast as people can bring them to him.
Loos has investigated some of the scariest and saddest cases in the region, including a bar beating that left a father of five dead and a case of suspected poisoning that left a Fargo man dead and his cousin behind bars for shooting him.
This week, though, the detective and his fellow investigators were on blue–light patrol, too.
“It was myself and the other detectives, going to Menards in Jamestown, in Detroit Lakes, and cleaning them out,” Loos said.
Within minutes, the P. D’s been cleaned out of every bulb, too.
Don Nicholson stopped by to pick one up, his years as a reserve deputy with San Bernardino county in California on his mind.
“This really hit home for me,” Nicholson said.
It hit home too for Tammy Enbright.
Her company Goodbulb raised $7,825 from sales of the blue bulbs for the Moszer family, which they presented in a giant check Friday.
“To have the community support was really amazing,” said Enbright. “We could have sold 3 times as many bulbs.”
Her company donated another 1,000 bulbs to the Fargo police, as did a manufacturer out of the Twin Cities.
More bulbs will also be on offer Saturday morning at the Moorhead Police Department.
