Tuesday morning motorcycle crash kills High Springs firefighter

UPDATE:  The funeral services for High Springs Fire Fighter Chad Hood are as follows:

The viewing is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 4, from 6 p.m to 7:30 p.m. at Williams Thomas Funeral Home located at 823 NW 143rd Street, Jonesville.  The funeral will be on Friday, Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. at the North Central Baptist Church located at 8001 NW 23rd Avenue, Gainesville. Burieil will be in the cemetery located at the Countryside Baptist Church immediately following the funeral services.  The location of the cemetery is 10926 NW 39th Avenue, Gainesville. It is directly behind the chuch/school.

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A High Springs firefighter was killed Tuesday morning in a crash in Alachua.  According to preliminary police reports, Firefighter Chad Hood was driving a motorcycle northbound on U.S. Highway 441 shortly after 6:30 a.m. when a minivan pulled out of a Sunoco gas station onto the highway.  Hood reportedly struck the side of the van.  He was pronounced deceased at Shands Hospital.  More details on this story to come in the August 4 printed edition of Alachua County Today.