The battle to contain wildfires across Greece continued for a seventh straight day as firefighters struggled to extinguish flames amid scenes of pandemonium prompted by the nation’s biggest ever evacuation of tourists on inferno-stricken Rhodes.
With the aid of water-dropping planes, authorities worked around the clock to tame numerous fires. While the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said it was clear the country was “at war with fire”, efforts were being concentrated on dousing blazes raging on the islands of Evia and Corfu, in addition to Rhodes.
