Ceremony Honors Firefighters for Bravery

Firefighters were honored for acts of bravery yesterday at the Fire Department Medal Day Ceremony, with several receiving medals.

James Byrne received the medal for the year's "most outstanding act of heroism" for rescuing a fellow firefighter found unconscious in a burning Queens building.

Ed Ryan, whose unit was the first to respond after Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle's plane crashed into an Upper East Side building, said he was surprised to receive a medal. "Usually you go to fires and you come home and only the firefighters remember it and the people who were there," he said.