Paulding dad honored as hero for saving family of 5 from rip current

A Paulding County father and a former Cobb County police officer is being honored for his heroism saving a family last year.

The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission posthumously awarded Chase Childers with the Carnegie Medal for Heroism.

Childers, 38, from Dallas was pulled from the ocean after drowning last July in Pawley’s Island, S.C…

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