about only 10% being can see the area earmarked in fires, but it has burnt all the way up to the seaside here, where a lot of hotels and seaside resorts are. so certainly having an impact, and we know that 19,000 people had to be evacuated from hotels and homes. 3000 of them via sea. so certainly there are large and as a people being disrupted by this. another thing to show you, we ve been talking about the aegean sea, but if we go over to the ionian islands here, just off the coast of albania, and we ve got italy just over here, got the island of corfu, which is also experiencing fires, and these are some of the latest pictures that we ve had here from there. now, this is as you can see a resort, there are people eating their dinner, eating their meal, while in the background fires burn. now, these fires, some people have been evacuated as a precaution because of these fires, but they are at this stage not burning as out of control as those in rhodes.
departure in rhodes that then the crew timed out. so that s the experience of some tourists. others are spending days on end here at the airport, waiting for flights out, and of course we have people stationed there, speaking to them. and also there is the british foreign 0ffice. now, they ve got a team there that s been sent to tell people that might not have their documents, they might have left hotels in a hurry or made their way to the airport from other destinations and not been able to go back to their hotels and resorts to get their documents and baggage, so they are on hand to help with that. and just talking about the level of impact of this fire, after the tourism minister s comments about only 10% being affected, you can see
the area here, marked in fires, but it has burnt all the way up to the seaside here, where a lot of hotels and seaside resorts are. so certainly having an impact, and we know that 19,000 people had to be evacuated from hotels and homes, 3,000 of them via sea. so certainly there are large numbers of people being disrupted by this. another thing to show you, we ve been talking about the aegean sea, but if we go over to the ionian islands here, just off the coast of albania, and we ve got italyjust over here, we ve got the island of corfu, which is also experiencing fires, and these are some of the latest pictures that we ve had here from there. now, this is, as you can see, is a resort, there are people eating their dinner, eating their meal, while in the background, fires burn. now, these fires, some people have been evacuated as a precaution because of these fires, but they are at this stage not burning as out of control as those in rhodes. but certainly the pictures we are seeing are
in the background about nine o clock, but it had obviously been going on a bit earlier than that, and then just as the night went on, rapidly see it spreading down the side of the mountain towards the east of the mountain. so as the night has gone on, it seems to have flamed up even more to the western side, but i think it is the wind coming up from the west and flaming it all night. and, katy, are you having to evacuate? no, not here, not at all. not here, but it is the people who are here in the central municipalities of the island, up in the mountains, that area there, it is quite mountainous, it looks like that they are being told to go down to the resorts, which are the seaside areas, so leaving their homes, which are higher up in that mountainside, to go down to the coast. i m too far away at the moment, but i have heard that there were smaller wildfires yesterday that they didn t put were smaller wildfires yesterday that they did put out in the south and further up north, so we
A large wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced authorities to order an evacuation of four locations, including two seaside resorts. About 2,000 people, including tourists, were evacuated by sea, fire department spokesman Yannis Artopios said Saturday evening.