![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/rhodes-wildfires-chilling-images-from-space-show-horrifying-devastation-of-blaze/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Greece-Wildfires-23205490460494.jpg&description=Wildfires on the Greek resort island of Rhodes forced more evacuations as strong winds and successive heat waves that left scrubland and forests tinder-dry fuelled three major fires raging elsewhere in Greece Chilling satellite images show the horrifying devastation wreaked by wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes. Greece is using an EU satellite service to estimate the damage caused by the fire and to target resources. Photographs published online by the service showed a brown hourglass-shaped burn scar across the middle of the island. A week-old wildfire on the Greek resort island of Rhodes tore past defences Monday, forcing more evacuations as strong winds and successive heat waves that left scrubland and forests tinder-dry fueled three major fires raging elsewhere in Greece. The latest evacuations were ordered in south Rhodes after 19,000 people, mostly tourists, were moved in buses and boats over the weekend out of the path of the fire that reached several coastal areas from nearby mountains. It was the country's biggest evacuation effort in recent years. Follow live updates on the wildfires in Greece here and contact The Mirror with your stories on webnews@mirror.co.uk "We are at war - completely focused on the fires," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a debate in parliament. "Over the coming days and weeks, we must remain on constant alert." Help continued to arrive from the European Union and elsewhere, with firefighting planes from neighbouring Turkey joining the effort on Rhodes, where 10 water-dropping planes and 10 helicopters buzzed over flames up to 5 meters (16 feet) tall despite low visibility. Temperatures reached the low 40s Celsius (above 104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of the Greek mainland Monday, a day after soaring as high as 45 degrees (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Evacuations were also ordered overnight on the western island of Corfu, where more than 2,000 people were moved to safety by land and sea, as well as on the island of E){kind=link}
Wildfires on the Greek resort island of Rhodes forced more evacuations as strong winds and successive heat waves that left scrubland and forests tinder-dry fuelled three major fires raging elsewhere in Greece
Chilling satellite images show the horrifying devastation wreaked by wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Greece is using an EU satellite service to estimate the damage caused by the fire and to target resources.
Photographs published online by the service showed a brown hourglass-shaped burn scar across the middle of the island.
A week-old wildfire on the Greek resort island of Rhodes tore past defences Monday, forcing more evacuations as strong winds and successive heat waves that left scrubland and forests tinder-dry fueled three major fires raging elsewhere in Greece.