Greece fires: Satellite images and maps show extent of damage

Tens of thousands of radical person been forced to permission their homes and wantonness holidays connected Greek islands including Rhodes and Corfu arsenic fires dispersed crossed the region.

In Rhodes a achromatic scar has been scorched crossed the mediate of the land to the confederate municipality of Kiotari.

Satellite images amusement the grade of the harm to the fashionable vacation resort.

The flames person destroyed galore homes and businesses successful the town.

The fires person been burning since past week connected Rhodes, wherever temperatures person reached 45C.

More than 30,000 radical person fled the flames connected the land since the weekend, Greece's largest-ever wildfire evacuation.

Some 16,000 radical person been transported crossed onshore and different 3,000 evacuated by sea, constabulary say. Others person had to permission by roadworthy oregon usage their ain transport.

They see thousands of tourists who had to marque for impermanent shelters similar sports stadiums earlier getting the exigency planes laid connected by question companies.

But with Greece successful the mediate of a agelong spell of utmost vigor that has accrued the hazard of wildfires crossed the country, Rhodes is not the lone spot that has been affected.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the state is "at war" with the wildfires and warns it faces "another 3 hard days ahead" earlier temperatures are expected to drop.

Civil extortion curate Vassilis Kikilia says occurrence crews person been warring much than 500 fires crossed the state implicit the past 12 days - including successful Midea connected the mainland.

Firefighters besides accidental the concern successful Corfu and Evia is not wholly nether control.

And Crete, the largest of the Greek Islands, has been besides been enactment connected precocious alert due to the fact that of an utmost hazard of fire.

The concern successful Greece is the effect of a heatwave crossed confederate Europe and bluish Africa that has helped make adust conditions and besides fto fires instrumentality clasp successful Sicily, Croatia, Algeria and Tunisia.

By Chris Clayton, Dominic Bailey, Tural Ahmedzade and Kate Gaynor