The change will affect a play area at the borough s Lincoln Park, said the mayor, who spoke against a backdrop of three fire trucks.
The tearful ceremony drew borough residents, clergy members and teachers in red T-shirts from the boys’ school, the Billingsport Early Education Center.
A contingent of first responders included Chuck Shaw, a Gibbstown firefighter who was burned while fighting the flames inside a West Washington Street home.
“This is just superficial,” Shaw insisted of the bandage that covered part of his face.
“Internally, it’s much, much worse,” he said of the emotional pain from the children s deaths. “For something like that to happen is every firefighter’s worst nightmare, along with every parent’s.”