Verizon’s $73K bill to volunteer fire company has community burning mad

Residents of a small island community in Virginia are up in arms over Verizon insisting the town’s volunteer fire company pony up $ 73,000 to have telecommunications equipment moved off a parcel of land on which the department is building a new firehouse.

(UPDATE, Jan. 6: T-Mobile’s John Legere gets involved.)

At the center of the clash is the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which besides selflessly protecting the island’s 3,000 residents is also renowned for its stewardship over the Chincoteague Ponies, a herd of 150 wild horses that, well, has nothing to do with the Verizon dispute but is so interesting you should take a few minutes to check out this website.

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