Greek television broadcast images of long lines of people, some in beachwear, lugging suitcases along the island's roads on Saturday, when the evacuations were ordered.Some 30,000 people fled the flames on Rhodes at the weekend, the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation.
"We had to lend a woman some of my wife's clothes because she had nothing to wear," Kevin Sales, an engineer from England, told AFP."It was terrible." Several travel companies have halted their inbound tourist flights to Rhodes, but have been helping to ferry foreigners home. According to the authorities, many regions of the country were under extreme risk of forest fires on Monday, but no towns were directly threatened by flames on Sunday night, the fire service told AFP.
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