Dispatcher Dies in Skydiving Incident

Fellow dispatchers at the Red River (ND) Regional Dispatch Center are mourning the death of Kyle Marple, who suffered a hard landing while skydiving at an area airport. Marple was an expert-class skydiving instructor who had 2,000 jumps in his log book, and was well-known in the community of skydiving. Police said Marple, 37, was on his third jump of the day and that his parachute opened, but he landed hard. He died several days later. Marple had worked at the Red River center for the past 14 months, and had recently been accepted into the Fargo police academy to become an officer.