Greek Wildfires Displace 19,000 in Country’s Biggest Evacuation
- Fire risk is high across Greece with temperatures near record
- Island is popular among tourists from UK, Germany, Poland
Tourists being evacuated on the island of Rhodes, July 22.
Source: AP
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Roughly 19,000 people were evacuated from parts of a Greek island where wildfires broke out amid the heat wave that’s set temperature records across southern Europe.
The Greek Coast Guard led efforts to rescue tourists and locals from beaches in the Kiotari and Lardos areas of the island of Rhodes. About 3,000 people were evacuated by sea and 16,000 by land from the affected areas, a fire department spokesman said Sunday.