Dwight Ligon Jr….24, of South Holland, died Wednesday when the motorcycle he was driving slammed into a vehicle near the intersection of 152nd and Halsted streets in Harvey about 8 p.m., …

He had just been sworn in as a part-time South Holland firefighter last week, a goal toward which he had worked for more than a year. His death is a huge loss to the department, South Holland Deputy Fire Chief Brian Kolosh said.

“Before he was in the academy he was helping out at the station,” Kolosh said. “He was doing station duties and coming to fire scenes and helping us clean up and learned what we do.”

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