More than 20 firepersons on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Equipment available include a 1991 Chevrolet pumper truck/quick attack, 1977 pumper/tanker, 1999 fire equipment van, 1985 pumper truck, 27 pagers, 1998 pumper truck, 1992 tanker truck, two jaws of life and 13 Scott air packs.

During fire prevention week, the department travels to the school and visits the alternative kindergarten,preschool, gingerbread school, and kindergarten through the fourth grades. They take the fire truck to school and the firemen talk to the students and give them a chance to see the fire equipment up close and to see the fire truck. The Ida Grove Fire Department also sponsors a poster contest for the third grade students.

Fire Dept:  James Meier - Fire Chief; Devlun Whiteing - Asst. Fire Chief; John Jacobson - Secretary; Bryan Beck - Treasurer; Jerry Ullrich - Steward; Fred Yohnke - 1st Foreman; Scott VanDusen - 2nd Foreman; Mike Porter - 3rd Foreman; Justin Collins - Training Officer; Dennis Collins - Safety Officer.

Members:  Fred Anderson, Tim Anderson, Daniel Cartier, David Clausen, Mike Collins, Terry Lovett, Brian Malcom, Stan Meyer, David Nelson, Jeremy Reitz, Darrell Wolf, Ricky Wonder, Don Wunschel.

Jr. Fire Fighters:  Loren Goettsch, Ryan Jacobson, Justin Gross. 

Ida Grove Ambulance Service

A volunteer ambulance service, based out of Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove, tends to the surrounding regions in Ida County, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Ida County Sheriff's Department is staffed with an elected sheriff and five deputies. Sheriff Wade Harriman was first elected Ida County Sheriff in 1998, and was re-elected in 2000 and 2004. He serves as Ida County's 20th Sheriff. During his service, he has implemented several new policies. One of which is the "pay as you stay" policy for the county jail. He believes inmates should pay for their room and board, and not burden the law-abiding taxpayers of Ida County. In 1999 he took over the D.A.R.E. program and now teaches the program to more than 100 fifth graders in the Ida County area each year. In 1999, the department purchased a K-9 drug dog, and the communications center, which is also responsible for dispatching the fire and ambulance services, was remodeled in 2000.

The department includes:

Sheriff's Dept: Wade Harriman - County Sheriff; Mike Hawthorne - Chief Deputy; Fred Anderson  - Sargent; Kevin Frank - Deputy; Randy Petersen - Deputy; John Malaise - Deputy; Matt Lugar - Deputy; Jeremy Strausser - Deputy; and Nathan Balder - Deputy

Jailer: Lena Hawthorne

Dispatchers: Kim Bleckwehl, Cheryl Klein, Jackie Wittrock, Charlie Luke, Amelia Luscombe, Marie Westphal, and Arlene Nollen.

Civil Secretary:  Tracey Luke