carried out in our country. that was a fire services team in greece. 0ur correspondentjenny hill is at rhodes international airport. well, what really strikes you hear is just how exhausted and how well, what really strikes you here is just how exhausted and how emotional people are. there must be several hundred people at rhodes airport. there is very limited seating so most of them are just squatting or even trying to sleep on the floor. some of the people have told us they have been here since the early hours of the morning, waiting for a handful of flights back to britain tonight. although actually, i ve just met a woman who sat very, very tearfully telling me that she hasn t got a flight home until wednesday but she doesn t want to go to a evacuation centre, doesn t want to try another hotel and they are very booked up because she is worried that the fires will simply spread further. the greek minister for tourism is here at the airport. we had a very brief word with her earli
this was the largest safe transport operation for residents and tourists ever carried out in our country. 0ur correspondentjenny hill is at rhodes international airport. what really strikes you here is just how exhausted and how emotional people are. there must be several hundred people at rhodes airport. there is very limited seating, so most of them are just squatting, or even trying to sleep on the floor. some of the people here told us they ve been here since the early hours of the morning, waiting for a handful of flights back to britain tonight. although actually, i have just met a woman who sat very, very tearfully, telling me that she hasn t got a flight home until wednesday, but she doesn t want to go to an evacuation centre, doesn t want to try another hotel and they re very booked up because she is worried that the fires will simply spread further. the greek minister for tourism is here at the airport. we had a very brief word with her earlier. she told us that 19,000 pe
British father Nick Stafford, 40, his wife Vicki, also 40, and their two children, aged seven and 11, described the situation as utter chaos after they were forced to flee their hotel in Rhodes.
Thousands of British, French and German holidaymaker were camped out at Rhodes airport Sunday trying to get a flight home after wildfires on the island drove them from their hotels."Those customers currently in Rhodes will return on their intended flight home," it added.