The New Kensington Volunteer Fire Department has found itself going on more fire calls each year, but with fewer volunteers.

How does the city maintain service and do more with less? The answer involves consolidating the fire company.

New Kensington currently has five fire stations, and they have a consolidation plan for three of those.

First, they want to close Engine House No. 2 on Freeport Street in the Parnassus part of town. The department would then like to use the Hilltop House No. 3 on Victoria Avenue as an administrative building.

Then, they would like to have all the firefighters from those two stations work out of their main building, Station No. 1, along Fourth Avenue.

Station No. 1, officially known as Citizens Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, is where KDKA-TV spoke with New

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