22 July 2023 at 13:08 Forest fire approaching – asking people to evacuate from areas on Rhodes A forest fire has flared up in Kiotari on Rhodes. Several people in the area have been told to evacuate immediately. – We are in the process of being evacuated now, Andreas Nybø from Ørsta tells news. He is located in Lardos on Rhodes. Images from social media show smoke billowing over the island. People in Kiotari and Asklipiio received an emergency alert by phone shortly before 2 p.m. local time, telling them to evacuate immediately to Gennadi. That’s what VG writes. Kiotari and Asklipiio villages are popular tourist destinations. Kiotari is on the coast and has several large hotels, while Asklipiio is four kilometers inland. – It’s a pretty fierce forest fire, it seems like it’s spreading pretty quickly. There has been a lot of air traffic above us with fire planes and helicopters, says Andreas Nybø on the island and continues. – When we were swimming down by the lake, a cloud of smoke came over us, and ash fell down. According to TV2, Apollo has a total of 200 Norwegians in the areas that may be evacuated, while Tui has evacuated all its hotels in Kiotari. There will be about 100 Norwegian guests. This is the sixth day in a row that the fire crews on the island are fighting forest fires. In the village of Laerma, the residents also received an emergency notification telling them to evacuate. It happened around 10.30pm on Friday evening, according to the newspaper Ekathimerini. The warning came after strong winds had pushed the fire south towards Laerma. A representative of the fire service described the operation on Rhodes as difficult, with various challenges in the northern part of the island. There are now around 70 forest fires in Greece, where the terrain is very dry after record high temperatures in recent weeks. Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia have sent hundreds of fire marshals to assist Greek crews in extinguishing the blaze.
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