Greece moves around 30,000 people to safety on the island of Rhodes where a wildfire continues to burn, while some 80 million people in southern US struggle under a record-breaking heatwave
Tourists are being evacuated as wildfire burns near Lindos on the island of Rhodes in Greece / Photo: Reuters
On the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, where a wildfire has been blazing for days, boats carried 2,000 people to safety from beaches in the east of the popular tourist island on Saturday.:"This is not a fire that will be over tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It'll be troubling us for days." Island officials arranged for dozens of buses to take people to safety, but where fires had cut off road access, others had to walk.
In Athens, the Foreign Ministry said it had activated its crisis management unit to facilitate the evacuation of foreign citizens due to the ongoing forest fires.
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