Residents of Nevada Town Score Temporary Win in Battle Against Verizon 5G Towers

Residents of Minden, Nevada, have temporarily stopped Verizon from putting up two 5G cell towers in their community near where children learn and play. But the battle isn’t over, they say.

Verizon wants to erect two 80-foot cell towers in Minden, about 20 miles from Lake Tahoe and home to roughly 3,000 residents.

“They are relentless,” Casey Rodgers, a Minden resident and leader of the grassroots group, “Minden for Safe Tech,” told The Defender. “One of their proposed towers is by a high school next to a dance studio and a daycare, and across the street from a neighborhood. The other is next to a park, across the street from an elementary school and neighborhood.”

Both towers would be on land owned by the town’s fire department. The towers would loom “directly above our bravest men and women in uniform, our firefighters and paramedics,” Rodgers said.

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