A St. Albans man pleaded guilty this week to defrauding the volunteer fire department he worked at and making false insurance claims after setting his own home on fire. Donald A. Ennis pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in an investigation stemming from a 2021 fire in St. Albans, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Prosecutors said Ennis admitted to filing false insurance claims to obtain more than $347,000 after intentionally setting fire to his own home in February 2021. He obtained the insurance policy after purchasing the home in 2018. A news release said, while working as a local volunteer fire department’s finance and operations manager, Ennis obtained more than $153,000 of the fire department’s funds through a series of ATM withdrawals and dozens of unauthorized online purchases with a debit card he had access to. Eyewitness News said Ennis is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 18 and faces up to 20 years in prison.