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Summer travel hell as thousands of holidays cancelled after blazing wildfires rip through Rhodes
Wildfires for a week have been tearing through Rhodes, one of Greece’s most popular summer vacation destinations, gutting homes and upending lives. An estimated 5,000 Brits remain stranded there, according to The Times, with tens of thousands due to fly there over the next two weeks. The woes of holidaymakers and those who rely on the island’s tourism are piling…
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Brit tourists forced to ‘march 12 hours in blazing heat’ to escape terrifying Greece fires
Petrified British tourists were left with no choice but to scramble away from wildfires for eight miles carrying their luggage and children in inferno-like temperatures on the Greek island of Rhodes. The “Dunkirk-style” operation saw desperate Brits fleeing the flames as the holiday spot became “hell on earth”. The blaze made light work of the island’s defences and as a…
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Holiday wildfire hell spreads to Corfu as tourists are evacuated by sea from inferno – as tens of thousands are stranded in evacuation centres on Rhodes as first 14 rescue flights carrying 2,700 leave blazing island
Mercy mission rescue flights will arrive in Rhodes and Corfu this morning to save British holidaymakers desperately trying to flee the fire-ravaged Greek islands also gripped by Europe’s 40C Cerberus heatwave. EasyJet say they have two rescue flights totalling 421 seats on Monday and a third on Tuesday, in addition to its nine scheduled planes carrying thousands of people home.…
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