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Originally Posted by kp&nala

According to snopes.com that it didn't really happen that way. Read this http://www.snopes.com/critters/defender/elephant.asp

Bust my Bubble ! Rats - it was still a cool story ... A little of it was true - they did use elephants to rescue people

There were rescues of tsunami victims by tamed elephants, but they were not of the ilk described in the account quoted above — they were far more prosaic and far less heroic.