Nine people were recently killed in Kosovo when an avalanche covered their house under 10 feet of snow. A little girl, only five years old, was pulled alive from the snow after being buried for more than 10 hours. How do you find someone buried under a storey of snow? With their cellphone.

The avalanche is a by-product of the cold snap in Europe, which has sent temperatures plummeting, causing abnormally heavy snowfall. Conditions are so bad that helicopters are unable to come to the rescue of many people in trouble.

Rescuers used the sound of the cellphone to locate the position of the little girl. That’s pretty spiffy. Now I really like my iPhone, but I would love to know what phone that was. If it can still work after being buried in snow for 10 hours, and then be heard by rescuers, that’s a pretty solid phone. My guess is it was a 3310, those things are indestructible. She was pulled from the rubble, alive, on Saturday, and then rushed to hospital.

Good thing she wasn’t on MTN, is all I’m saying.

[Source: Yahoo!]