In Pictures: Plumes of smoke and tourists evacuated

Greece has been grappling with searing vigor and devastating wildfires, exacerbated by temperatures exceeding 40C, and beardown winds.

Fires connected Rhodes person blazed for astir a week, with the Greek islands of Corfu and Evia besides reporting fires that stay retired of control.

Huge plumes of fume roseate into the atmosphere, disposable by satellites.

Firefighters and volunteers person been mobilised to power the fires, portion craft person been utilized to tackle the flames.

A firefighter carried a feline and 2 rabbits, rescued from the fire, betwixt the villages of Kiotari and Genadi.

Some wildlife managed to fly the flames but ample areas person been devastated.

Thousands of radical person been evacuated from Rhodes.

Over the weekend, holidaymakers were forced to permission their hotels, immoderate without luggage.

Evacuees person been enactment into impermanent accommodation astatine sports halls and league centres.

At airports, determination person been scenes of chaos and agelong queues, arsenic tourists hold to beryllium flown out.

Airline companies and vacation companies person been sending repatriation flights to instrumentality stranded radical to the UK.

The fires person near ample areas of Rhodes burnt and blackened and properties destroyed.

As the blistery upwind conditions continue, determination is the ever-present information that caller fires volition interruption out.

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