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December 28, 2005
Angel of the Beach
Here's a neat story about one young girl saving people in the tsunami last year:
A French children's magazine has named its "Child of the Year," an 11-year-old British girl now dubbed "the Angel of the Beach," who saved hundreds of lives during last year's tsunami in Southeast Asia. Tilly Smith had studied tsunamis in her geography class two weeks before taking a Christmas holiday to Thailand.
During a walk on Phuket island beach, she spotted bubbling water and what she called "foam sizzling just like in a frying pan." She recognized them as tsunami warning signs and told her parents, who alerted hotel staff. The beach was evacuated minutes before the giant wave crashed ashore and was one of the few on the island where no one was killed.
Way to go, Tilly!
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