Potential tax break proposed for Iowa’s volunteer first responders

A legislator who’s been a volunteer fire fighter for 33 years is sponsoring legislation that could lead to a five-hundred dollar property tax credit for first responders who are volunteers.

Republican Senator Adrian Dickey of Packwood said the idea came after new fire alarms were installed in a local school, prompting several false calls to the local fire department. “(School officials) were apologizing, you know, we do this for free, we take time out of our jobs, leave our families — whatever (and) if there was a way that they could help us a little bit,” Dickey said today, “and that’s a little bit where the idea came from.”

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