 This is 31 fewer than this time last year. A sergeant with the Iowa State Patrol called the decrease promising, but he says several of those deaths may have been prevented if drivers and passengers wore their seat belts. A former Grundy Center firefighter accused of setting a string of fires will spend 25 years in prison. This week, a judge sentenced Kendall Rhodes. Prosecutors say he would start fires and then respond to them with the Holland Fire Department.