{"id":424759,"date":"2026-10-11T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:54:13","slug":"martin-county-employee-rescues-teen-caught-in-rip-current-at-unguarded-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424759\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County employee rescues teen caught in rip current at unguarded beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Martin County employee rescued a teenage girl caught in a rip current Thursday afternoon at an unguarded <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Martin%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County<\/a> beach, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County Fire Rescue said paramedics took the girl to a hospital with minor drowning-related injuries after the incident at Bob Graham Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3 p.m., Amy Offenbach saw three girls swimming in a rip current as thunderstorms moved through the area, according to the county. Offenbach, who works in the county\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martin.fl.us\/government\/departments\/growth-management-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Growth Management Department<\/a> and surfs in her free time, noticed one of the girls struggling.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Offenbach commandeered a surfboard and brought the teen to shore. The girl had lost consciousness after choking on water, the county said.<\/p>\n<p>Offenbach then drove the teen to Jensen Beach, where members of Martin County Ocean Rescue provided medical care before Martin County Fire Rescue took her to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Graham Beach does not have lifeguards, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/2-more-elderly-men-arrested-in-dj-wilcox-preserve-lewd-activity-crackdown-dj-wilcox-preserve-st-lucie-county-st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office-lewd-activity-elderly-men-arrests-undercover-operation-exposure-of-sexual-organs-danny-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 more elderly men arrested in DJ Wilcox Preserve lewd activity crackdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident underscores the danger of rip currents, particularly at unguarded beaches and when storms move through the area. Swimmers caught in a rip current are advised not to fight the current directly; instead, they should float, signal for help and swim parallel to shore when able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Martin County employee rescued a teenage girl caught in a rip current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-424759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424759","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=424759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}