Fire Chief: Verizon Throttled Data During Mendocino Complex Fires

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Firefighters battling the largest blaze in California history say Verizon throttled their data, crippling important resources during the emergency.
Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden filed a statement saying the data connection to OES 5262, a mobile communications center, had been throttled as firefighters battled the Mendocino Complex fires. Rather than simply lift the data cap in an emergency situation, Bowden says Verizon instead tried to force the departm