Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 more people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fought several wildfires in the heat-battered country.
Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home.
Kelly Squirrel, a transport administrator from the United Kingdom, said police had ordered people from her hotel on Rhodes to evacuate. Police said 16,000 people had been transported on land and evacuated 3,000 by sea. Others had to flee by road or used their own transport after being told to leave the area.
"We had to lend a woman some of my wife's clothes because she had nothing to wear," Kevin Sales, an engineer from England, told AFP."It was terrible."Several travel companies have halted their inbound tourist flights to Rhodes, and have been helping to ferry foreigners home.
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