Local families open homes to help desperate tourists, giving them water and trying to cool them down amid ‘unbelievable’ heat
Britons evacuated as wildfires closed in on their hotels have hailed local residents for taking them in as their holidays turned to disaster.
Greeks living on Rhodes opened homes, schools and churches to thousands of holidaymakers who were forced to flee their hotels over the weekend.
An evacuation in Kiotari on the south-east of the island, which was likened to Dunkirk, saw hundreds scramble onto yachts, catamarans and glass-bottomed vessels which became lifeboats. It has become the largest evacuation operation in Greek history.
Nearly 20,000 people, many of them tourists, are being evacuated, as the wildfires sweep down from the mountains towards Rhodes’s south-western coastal resorts.