![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/we-didnt-know-rhodes-had-been-on-fire-when-we-arrived-here/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Exclu-tagged.jpg&description=The Mirror's travel reporter Milo Boyd headed over to the popular holiday spot to see that life is getting back to normal and the island is very much open for business as locals bounce back from the devastation Two weeks ago holiday companies were stopping flights to parts of Rhodes as wildfires ravaged parts of the picturesque Greek island. The infernos resulted in thousands of Brits facing evacuations from their hotel rooms - with some fleeing without their passports or cash. At the Tui sensatori Atlantica Dreams Resort in Gennadi, a village on the south east coast of the island, they emptied the pools so the fire fighters could use the water to douse the flames. After coursing down miles of hillside killing 2,000 deer in the process, the blaze stopped just over the road from the hotel, 20m from the lobby. Fearful it wouldn't stop, staff evacuated the 1,000 booked residents and 3,000 who had already escaped the flames once before and were sheltering in the palatial lobby. They fled along the beach beneath great clouds of choking flames. Travelling through the impacted area now, after driving through mile after mile of beautiful, unaffected countryside, shows the surreal and random nature of wildfires. Some hillsides are burnt to the ground along with the small houses and restaurants that sat on them. Others are either hardly scorched or partially, the flames stopping just centimetres from homes that stand in blackened fields. More than three million people visit Rhodes and staying in its 546 hotels each year and two weeks after the fires were put out, the TUI Sensatori is back up to 95% occupancy and the atmosphere in the hotel is relaxed. Yvonne and her daughter Emily Hunter travelled from Manchester to celebrate their 57th and 21st birthdays to be among them. They were unaware Rhodes had been ablaze when they booked the trip a week later. 'I knew there were fires in Greece but I didn't know it was so close. I had no idea,' Yvonne told the Mirror. "My husband had){kind=link}
The Mirror’s travel reporter Milo Boyd headed over to the popular holiday spot to see that life is getting back to normal and the island is very much open for business as locals bounce back from the devastation
Two weeks ago holiday companies were stopping flights to parts of Rhodes as wildfires ravaged parts of the picturesque Greek island.
The infernos resulted in thousands of Brits facing evacuations from their hotel rooms – with some fleeing without their passports or cash. At the Tui sensatori Atlantica Dreams Resort in Gennadi, a village on the south east coast of the island, they emptied the pools so the fire fighters could use the water to douse the flames.
After coursing down miles of hillside killing 2,000 deer in the process, the blaze stopped just over the road from the hotel, 20m from the lobby. Fearful it wouldn’t stop, staff evacuated the 1,000 booked residents and 3,000 who had already escaped the flames once before and were sheltering in the palatial lobby. They fled along the beach beneath great clouds of choking flames.
Travelling through the impacted area now, after driving through mile after mile of beautiful, unaffected countryside, shows the surreal and random nature of wildfires. Some hillsides are burnt to the ground along with the small houses and restaurants that sat on them. Others are either hardly scorched or partially, the flames stopping just centimetres from homes that stand in blackened fields.