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There's new legislation in the works to help first responders in Rockland County.

Assemblyman Mike Lawler introduced proposals Friday that would provide either a 10% or 100% property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters in Rockland County who are actively serving for at least five years.

Another piece of legislation he announced would allocate $250 million for first responders across the state to tap into for training.

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed similar legislation for volunteer firefighters in Monroe County to receive a 10% property tax cut.  

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Meteorologist Addison Green back now with a look ahead to milder days, my friend. Yeah, we're not talking though, Kevin, like, break out the shorts though, so I gotta keep us still back in the closet. But we'll get the chance for maybe dealing with temperatures running a little bit better, more appropriate for this time of the year because the past few days have been a little bit more winter like than fall. Like after all, we are still in the middle of going through these fall days. Now go through your day on Thursday. It's gonna be getting a little bit better out there. Temperatures moving upward. They'll continue to move upward for your day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But we do have a deal of rain chances also on the rise. But you can certainly see over the next several mornings where we have been feeling that really big chill in the air. Thursday morning, temperatures around mid-twenties feeling about 20 degrees Friday, mid thirties feeling about 30 degrees and then by Saturday, 41 feeling close to that. So yeah, we're moving those numbers in a positive direction through your future cast. We go towards eight o'clock, 30 degrees in Poughkeepsie feels like 23 white way, same thing for you and then towards the 10 o'clock hour watching those numbers kind of still hanging around that same area towards Thursday morning. Though, temperatures around say Yorktown Heights been about 24 degrees go down towards around 29. Not bad. A little bit chilly out there to the Middletown area. Then by Thursday afternoon, temperatures certainly looking to be moving in a positive direction. Lots of locations feeling like the upper thirties. Now for Friday, we're going to be watching a storm system moving towards the northeast and as we bring in milder air, we're also bringing in that rain shower chain. So as we displace that colder air, we're not worried about any wintry mix or snow mixed on in with those rain showers, just rain coming on down and it should be wrapping on up by the time we get in towards early Saturday morning and then we'll get a dry day through that.

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New legislation aims to help Rockland County first responders

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Help is on the way for first responders in Rockland County in the form of new legislation just unveiled today, News 12's Diane Caruso has those details. Mm hmm. Thousands of firefighters called Rockland County home. I started when I was 16 years old and I love my community and just like Kenny Gordon. They all serve as volunteers. We have a lot of Young members who we get when they're 16 years old. We have them through high school, they go to college and when they come back, they can't live here. That's because of high taxes. According to Gordon, a member with the Orangeburg Fire Department for nearly five decades. This is the second family really is. There's new legislation in the works to give them all some financial relief. They spend a lot of time serving our community time away from their families To keep our community safe. And so to me, this is something that we can do to support them on Friday, Assemblyman Mike Lawler introduced a set of bills that would provide either a 10% or 100% property tax reduction for Rockland County firefighters. The legislation would apply to volunteer firefighters who are serving for at least five years Gov. Local recently signed off on giving volunteer firefighters in Monroe County a 10% property tax cut. Now Rockland County's fate waits in the hands of state lawmakers and the governor this upcoming year. I hope all the people involved, all the politicians helped push this through and that everybody will vote for it. It's a necessity in Orangeburg. Diane crusoe News 12. Assemblyman Mike Lawler also introduced another bill today that would allocate $250 million New York state to tap into for training.

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