Girl honored for saving lives with pre-tsunami warning
A French children's magazine named as its Child of the Year a British schoolgirl credited with saving about 100 tourists at a Thai beach when the tsunami struck last year.
The upcoming issue of Mon Quotidien, which hits newsstands Tuesday, features a smiling Tilly Smith on its cover.
Smith, now 11, had studied tsunamis in her geography class two weeks before going to Thailand on vacation.
On a morning walk on a Phuket island beach on Dec. 26, 2004, Smith recognized the warning signs that a tsunami was coming when she saw "bubbling on the water . . . and foam sizzling just like in a frying pan."
She told her parents and alerted staff at the Marriott Hotel, where they were staying. The beach was evacuated minutes before waves struck.
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