At least 164 fires burned in 58 places on the popular Greek vacation island of Rhodes in the past 24 hours, Greece’s fire service said Sunday, as residents were forced to leave their homes and summer vacations morphed into chaotic nightmares.
In response to the latest wildfires, airlines TUI and Jet2 announced on Sunday that they were canceling flights to Rhodes as tourists on the island took to social media to document their experiences.
The deputy mayor of Rhodes, Athanasios Vyrinis, warned Sunday that authorities were straining to cope with the large number of evacuees. “There is only water and some rudimentary food — we don’t have mattresses and beds,” he said, according to theOn Twitter, some tourists shared how they fled vacation resorts on the island — grabbing their children and running — as fires encroached on their hotels, while others spent the night in makeshift accommodations, sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
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