Eight new city fire trucks dedicated Sunday morning had Mayor Byron W. Brown’s name emblazoned on the side below the city seal.

After some blowback from upset members of the firefighters union, the mayor’s name is being removed.

“We thought it was in bad taste that the mayor would have his name on the rig,” Thomas P. Barrett, vice president of the union, said Tuesday. “Historically, with the Fire Department, the only names that go on the rig are [those of] the members who sacrifice their lives for the citizens of Buffalo.”

The new trucks were dedicated during the memorial ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which was held at the Central Wharf.

Michael J. DeGeorge, Brown’s spokesman, said the mayor made the decision to have his name removed Monday night after hearing concerns about it Monday afternoon.

The Public Works Department is designing a new decal that “should be placed on the trucks in the next day or so,” DeGeorge said Tuesday.

The new equipment consists of six engines and two ladder trucks, Barrett said.

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