By Jennifer Rodriguez

The Herald

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One person is dead and another was rescued during a tragic skydiving incident in Tennessee.

Firefighters responded to reports of a skydiver in distress on Oct. 4, the Nashville Fire Department said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The man was stuck in a tree with an open parachute in a wooded area, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a post on X.

In an update, the fire department said the jumper was rescued and freed from a harness after being stuck for hours. He was helped down a ladder and was in stable condition.

Police said the man had been separated from a tandem rig, which is a parachute system, with an instructor.

“The instructor is presumed to have fallen from the sky without a parachute,” police

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