Thousands flee forest fires in Rhodes. Vacationers who landed in Munich on Monday report “war-like” conditions in the south-east of the island. And in the north, the disco just keeps going.
A small bag and their passports – that’s all the Arnoldner family had with them when they arrived at Munich Airport on Monday afternoon. Like thousands of other holidaymakers, she had to flee for two days from the forest fires in the southeast of the Greek holiday island of Rhodes, sometimes on foot. The clothes are a bit dirty. Will they still get their suitcases sent to them? “We don’t know what can be saved, we don’t know whether the hotel was destroyed,” says Stefan Arnoldner, 42.