The Fire Department has renamed its top medal for distinguished service in memory of the Chief of Department who died during the World Trade Center rescue attempts.
In honoring the heroism of Peter J. Ganci, who had been its top-ranking uniformed firefighter, the department simultaneously rid itself of the increasing controversy over the medal having been bestowed for more than 150 years in the name of a racist publisher of the Civil War era.
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