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ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. — No relief is coming to two groups of first responders whose funding has been cut by county leaders.
“Our efforts should really be concentrated on helping our fellow citizens and not worried about whether or not we are going to be able to pay the bills,” said Chief Joel Acree, with the Carrollton Fire Department. Chief Acree says that the trouble for his, and the Windsor Fire Department, started when the county leaders presented them with a new service agreement.
“Some of the particulars that were in there that restricted the use of things we actually bought as volunteers, so we actually sounded the alarm then, pardon the pun, that we weren’t being listened to, that the elected officials weren’t listening to us and obviously the staff wasn’t either,” Acree said.
Full story: Two Isle of Wight fire departments remain unfunded