![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/my-family-with-four-kids-was-left-running-for-our-lives-from-the-rhodes-fires-we-waded-neck-deep-in-water-to-escape/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/newspress-collage-23146191-1690107750364.jpg&description=ESCAPE FROM HELL My family with four kids was left running for our lives from the Rhodes fires – we waded neck-deep in water to escape A BRITISH dad-of-four has described his family's hell as they fled the Rhodes inferno in the dead of night. PE Teacher Daniel Jones had to wade into the ocean neck deep to get his young family onto a pleasure boat to escape the flames that chased them. 9 British couple Daniel Jones and his wife Hannah have told of their horror escape from the violent blaze in Rhodes 9 Three of their sons after they had waded through water and reached a private boat 9 Footage of the wildfire fast-approaching their hotel Daniel, 37, was holidaying with wife Hannah, 35, and their four kids, Ethel, 2, Oliver, 5, Albert, 7 and Rupert, 9, when they were evacuated from their luxury hotel at 10pm Saturday night. The family, from Exeter, Devon, was staying at the Atlantica Dreams Resort in Gennadi along with grandparents Shirley, 68, and Gary, 72, when the sky turned orange and filled with smoke. Daniel told The Sun: "We only arrived in Rhodes on Friday night, so Saturday was our first day by the pool. "At around 12pm I looked up and the sun had disappeared and there was a long trail of smoke going on for miles. "Eventually the whole hotel was shrouded in smoke, and there was an orange glow on the hillside. It was really eerie." Daniel said over the course of the day hundreds of other holidaymakers arrived at their hotel having been evacuated from other resorts on the island. "It was chaos, the lobby was like Heathrow airport. We packed our bags ready to leave but there was no communication from the tour operator about what we should do. "Eventually an evacuation alarm sounded in the hotel and the manager said we all had to leave on foot. "We just followed the crowds and walked into the night dragging our cases and my wife pushing a buggy. The kids were exhausted, upset and crying and there was hysteria, a sense of panic. "At some point a TUI rep said there w){kind=link}
A BRITISH dad-of-four has described his family’s hell as they fled the Rhodes inferno in the dead of night.
PE Teacher Daniel Jones had to wade into the ocean neck deep to get his young family onto a pleasure boat to escape the flames that chased them.
Daniel, 37, was holidaying with wife Hannah, 35, and their four kids, Ethel, 2, Oliver, 5, Albert, 7 and Rupert, 9, when they were evacuated from their luxury hotel at 10pm Saturday night.
The family, from Exeter, Devon, was staying at the Atlantica Dreams Resort in Gennadi along with grandparents Shirley, 68, and Gary, 72, when the sky turned orange and filled with smoke.
Daniel told The Sun: “We only arrived in Rhodes on Friday night, so Saturday was our first day by the pool.