A judge will determine the immediate future of a 1-year-old boy whose mother left him at the Mason City Fire Department this week. The boy was left by his mother, a Mason City resident, at the city’s fire station about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, officials say. She rang the doorbell, spoke with firefighters and then left the child with them, said Mason City Fire Capt. Richard Paulson. The boy is too old to be covered by Iowa’s Safe Haven Law, which allows parents to leave children up to 14 days old at healthcare facilities, but police do not plan to press charges. Instead, the case has been turned over to the Iowa Department of Human Services. Although she wouldn’t discuss specifics of the little boy’s case, Iowa DHS Spokeswoman Amy Lorentzen McCoy said the courts determine custody of all children that come into Iowa DHS care. Once a judge has determined custody of a child, Iowa DHS can help find living arrangements for the juvenile. Sometimes that is with relatives, other times it can be with a foster parent. “DHS can help make the child’s living arrangements with relatives or a foster family, and provide supports to work toward reunification with parents if that’s safe for the child, or toward an alternate permanent placement,” Lorentzen McCoy said. On Tuesday, the boy spent about 15 minutes with Mason City firefighters. He spent another 3 to 4 hours with Mason City police while Iowa DHS workers found a place for him to spend the night, said Mason City Police Capt. Mike McKelvey.