{"id":6584,"date":"2025-07-26T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:05:28","slug":"athlete-police-officer-dies-saving-family-from-rip-current-in-front-of-his-wife-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"Athlete &#038; Police Officer Dies Saving Family from Rip Current in Front of His Wife and Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"144\"><strong data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"144\">Heroic Former Athlete Dies Saving Family from Rip Current<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"376\">Anderson \u201cChase\u201d Childers, 38, a former pro baseball player turned police officer, died heroically while rescuing a family of five from a rip current at Pawleys Island, South Carolina\u2014right in front of his wife and three children.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"614\">While vacationing on Sunday, Childers jumped into action after a woman called for help. With another bystander, he brought all five victims to safety but was ultimately swept away by the current. His body was recovered 90 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"879\">A native of Nashville and former Baltimore Orioles minor leaguer, Childers later served as a Cobb County police officer, earning a lifetime achievement award for saving lives. Friends and colleagues remember him as selfless, courageous, and devoted to his family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"881\" data-end=\"1026\">His death marks the fifth drowning in the area since June 2023. In response, local authorities plan to improve beach safety and public awareness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1140\">A GoFundMe page describes Childers as a devoted husband and father whose legacy of bravery and love will endure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1140\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4rqborociOg?si=j8rMKWt341roMuZe\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic Former Athlete Dies Saving Family from Rip Current Anderson \u201cChase\u201d Childers, 38, a former pro baseball player turned police officer, died heroically while rescuing a family of five from a rip current at Pawleys Island, South Carolina\u2014right in front of his wife and three children. While vacationing on Sunday, Childers jumped into action after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6584\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Athlete &#038; Police Officer Dies Saving Family from Rip Current in Front of His Wife and Kids&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}