ORLANDO – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) Orlando workplace just lately honored fallen HSI Activity Power Agent (TFA) Miguel Martínez-Ortiz throughout Working 4 Heroes. Martínez-Ortiz, a member of the Puerto Rico Police Division was a TFA for HSI San Juan and a 28-year veteran of legislation enforcement. He handed away on April 24, 2020, after contracting COVID-19 whereas on responsibility.
HSI Orlando Particular Agent A.J. Grooms met with the household of Martínez-Ortiz and joined as an emergency car escort for the run.
This was the primary time Working 4 Heroes, whose mission is to lift consciousness for these fallen within the line of responsibility, was in a position to current the flag on to the household of the fallen hero after the run.
Whereas Grooms didn’t know Martínez-Ortiz personally, a number of brokers inside the HSI Tampa space of operations knew him very nicely. These brokers remembered Martínez-Ortiz as a valued co-worker and a greater good friend.
Grooms understood the significance of getting HSI illustration on the occasion saying “That’s what household does. He was a brother I simply by no means met.”
“Working 4 Heroes began with a child, an appreciation for our first responders, and a mission to lift consciousness and funds for these fallen within the line of responsibility,” reads an announcement on the group’s web site at running4heroes.org. “Zechariah Cartledge was born with the present of working. He was raised with an appreciation for first responders and all they do for the neighborhood. As he grew older, Zechariah determined to assist the households of our fallen first responders in a significant means. Inspired by the mission and imaginative and prescient of the Tunnel to Towers Basis, Zechariah started his journey elevating funds for these households by working.”
Cartledge runs a mile for each first responder killed within the line of responsibility. In the course of the run he carries a skinny blue or crimson line flag that he donates to the household of the fallen hero. Along with the runs, Working 4 Heroes is a 501(c)(3) group which administers a grant for injured first responders to supply monetary help wanted to alleviate a part of the concern and ache brought on by harm.
Usually, Cartledge encourages first responders and members of the neighborhood to affix him throughout his run. Nonetheless, as a result of social distancing suggestions related to COVID-19, Working 4 Heroes requested that members of the neighborhood assist remotely and invited first responders to affix the emergency car escort.