The parents affected by the grief

Miami -The team of a 23-year-old trained firefighter and a paramedic who died after a head crash, honored his memory on Friday at the Miami-Dad Fire Academy.

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Tiffany Urutia said she was crying every day since her son Ezekiel Zeke, Urutia, died on January 9th after a Florida Turnpik crash in Miami-Dad County.

“He wanted to save life; it was his calling,” said the grieving mother. “He thought it was the most honorable career you could have … to save someone’s life.”

As of Friday, the Florida highway patrols had not arrested the 55-year-old woman Hialeia, who was driving south on the northern sails of Turnpike before the fatal disaster.

“The worse is to have to experience,” said Frank Urutia, a grieving father of Ezekiel.

Carl Paul-Noel, director of the Miami-Dad Fire Academy at Miami-Dad, gave a speech during the announcement of a new scholarship in honor of Ezekiel.

“Zeke was more than a firefighter, he was a patron, a healer and a true civil servant,” Paul-Noel said. “His loss was indeed a tragedy that shook all of us in the fire service, but my inheritance I can assure that you will never be forgotten.”

The scholarship in the memory of Ezekiel “Zeke” Urrutia will be awarded annually to a fire cadet at a college in Miami-Dad.

“I think he smiles from the sky,” his father said.

For more information on how to contribute to the scholarship fund, visit this page.