Fire & Light is Hand-Made in the USA. Fire & Light Originals has a noteworthy heritage, established in 1995 as a partnership of Arcata Community Recycling Center in Humboldt County, California, and local investors who desired to develop an innovative plan for using crushed, recycled glass. The founders decided to turn their recycled glass into a raw material, manufacturing distinctive products for sale in and out of the California area. The group created a distinctive line of colored glass dinnerware which would be created by melting crushed glass in furnaces, adding pigment, and pressing the molten glass into bowls, plates and glasses. In December 1995 the first glass products were poured and pressed from the Fire & Light furnaces.