July 24, 2023

How they spend their summer vacation? Being evacuated, and waiting in shelters for a flight home. Via USAToday:

Thousands more residents and tourists on two Greek islands were fleeing to safety Monday as wildfires fueled by high winds and an unrelenting pattern of brutal heat waves consumed homes, hotels and businesses in the peak tourism season.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned that his country has "more difficult days" ahead of it because of soaring temperatures. He estimated that 32,000 "precautionary evacuations" were carried out over the weekend on the islands of Rhodes and Corfu.

"We are at war against the fires," Mitsotakis said.

On Rhodes, tourists are fleeing from the path of a weeklong fire that roared down from the mountains into several coastal areas. Evacuations spread to the island of Corfu, where 2,000 were ordered out Monday as fire raged in the northeast end of the island but had not reached residences, the local fire department reported.

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