Chester County's Hero Plaque program, modeled after one started in Philadelphia in 2000 by lawyer and boxing promoter Jimmy Binns, expanded Wednesday to add a tribute to a fallen firefighter to the plaques lining the Market Street sidewalk of the historic courthouse in West Chester.
A brief ceremony attended by about 100 firefighters and law enforcement personnel honored Roy A. Harris, assistant chief of the Po-Mar-Lin Fire Company in Unionville. He died May 25, 1982, when he and four other firefighters were struck by a vehicle while refueling a pumper truck after a fire.
