Georgia’s father died on South Carolina Paulis Island During the weekend, it helped save many swimmers in a distress from the rupture stream before drowning, the authorities confirmed.
Anderson “Chis” Childers, 38, was a husband, a three -year father, and a former police officer. He was spending leave on Pawleys, a place he and his family visited several times a year, when another family was arrested in a rupture stream.
“I entered the first response instincts and went to the water to save people,” said Paulis Island Police Chief Michael Fanning.
The Chis WCBD family told Nexstar that a woman asked him to help save worshipers, without hesitation, and faced water.
Chis and another person managed to save the swimmers. However, when the wife of Chis saw the five family and the other man returning to the beach without her husband, Midway Fire Rescue was sent to the scene.
Pawleys and Coast Guard Police joined the search and regained the body of Chis after about 90 minutes.
His family said in a statement to WCBD: “Chis was a really non -selfish individual, always giving the safety of others over his own. Without hesitation, he was jumping to work whenever someone was in need, ready to face any challenge that came on his way. To his family and everyone who knows him, he will remember him forever as a hero.”
This is not the first chase of life. When he worked as a police officer, he received the COB County Police Award in 2012.
Law enforcement officials said this was the fifth drowning on the island of Paulis since June of 2023, and the second last month. Sandbars in the Atlantic Avenue area are common, but it can become fatal quickly.
Pawleys WcBD is now taking additional steps to prevent drowning in the future.
“We are working to educate the people who are hired here, and the people who visit here. We get a magnet for all the homes that explain the torn currents and how to deal with them. We will put additional banners in the areas exposed to these casting currents.
“Do not worry, swim in parallel with the beach until you get out of the current. Then make your way back,” said the police.