{"id":218305,"date":"2026-04-04T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:50:08","slug":"maine-man-drowns-while-saving-children-from-rip-current-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218305\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine man drowns while saving children from rip current in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; A Maine man passed away Wednesday after witnesses say he drowned while saving his kids from a rip current on a family vacation in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Palm Beach County say their rescue team at Juno Beach helped to bring four people to shore after a rip current formed, noting that they were not swimming in a guarded area.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-emily-jennings-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe page<\/a> started by a friend of the family, the victim, 46-year-old Ryan Jennings, died while saving two of his children.<\/p>\n<p>The family told the Press Herald he threw his 12-year-old son away from the current as it formed and held his 9-year-old daughter above his head as the current took them.<\/p>\n<p>The two children survived.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-emily-jennings-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe page<\/a> has raised more than $90,000 for the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND (WGME) &#8212; A Maine man passed away Wednesday after witnesses say he drowned while saving his kids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}