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For 25 years, Lt. Michael Wright drove on West 25th Street in Hialeah to get to Fire Station No. 6. <\/span><\/p>\n

On June 26, Hialeah renamed the street to honor his legacy as the city\u2019s first African-American firefighter. Wright, who worked as an instructor in the fire academy at North Campus<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for 15 years, passed away in December, at the age of 56, after battling leukemia and bladder cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Wright Way extends from West 4th Avenue to West 8th Avenue. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a trailblazer. He faced many challenges and he came through unscathed; he knew that somebody like him needed to blaze the trail for others,\u201d said Karls Paul-Noel, the fire science program manager at Miami Dade College, who was also Wright\u2019s direct supervisor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wright was hired by the city of Hialeah in 1986. He faced adversity from the outset. A February 2016 <\/span>Miami Herald<\/span><\/i> article describes how colleagues hurled racial slurs at him on a daily basis and shoved equipment at him. After five months of abuse, Wright considered quitting. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>There were times where he wanted to give up, and I told him that he couldn\u2019t give up the battle, that he could be a leader\u2014not a follower,\u201d Wright\u2019s mom, DeAlma Andrews said proudly. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His leadership qualities eventually paid off. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe City of Hialeah had never walked at the Martin Luther King Parade, but Michael thought it was the right thing to do,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cHe went to his superiors and was instrumental in getting the entire department into the parade for the first time in 2016.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His passion for the fire department was fueled at a young age. As a kid, his mom bought him a toy firetruck but it was an experience with a real fire truck that left an impression. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe lived in Liberty City and we had to call the firefighters and that was his first love for the fire department,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t stop staring at this giant fire truck.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Wright also believed it was his mission to serve the community even when he wasn’t extinguishing fires. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was known to take Sundays off to cook for the homeless and was also a mentor for the Boys & Girls Club of America, an organization that provides young people with various character building programs. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the young men came up to Michael and asked if it were possible if he could become a fireman,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cMichael asked him [a] question, helped him and now that boy is actually a fireman in the same station.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As an instructor at North Campus<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Wright taught various classes including hazardous material courses that focus on handling highly flammable substances. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone said he had an infectious smile and he would light up talking to students,\u201d said Hialeah Fire Station No. 5 fire captain and public information officer Cesar Espinosa. \u201cHe had a passion for teaching and being a mentor.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

When he was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 he was forced to stop teaching, but the community wanted to do something to honor the man with the infectious smile. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>His students planned a picnic for him and it was retirees and MDC fire academy students of all ages coming from all places to visit,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cI was so amazed at how many lives he touched that showed up to celebrate him, how loved he was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wright\u2019s friends and co-workers say his legacy will live forever. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe embodied not only \u00a0what a firefighter should be but what a person should be,\u201d \u00a0said Rick Mancinelli, Wright\u2019s co-worker at MDC. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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