'The lodge burned down': Grandmother who thought she was going to die amongst offended vacationers stranded in Rhodes

On the ground of Rhodes airport, the exhausted sleep.

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People who fled their accommodations because the flames approached.

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Some operating for his or her lives.

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In one nook, we meet Corina, a vacationer from Denmark, together with her husband Peter and daughter Mathilde.

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They lie in a bit pile, salt stains overlaying their garments.

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Corina explains that they had been staying in Kiotari, after they had been advised the wildfires had been coming of their path and it was time to go away.

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For 11km (6.8 miles) they walked in scorching temperatures, however each time they thought they had been secure, they had been advised the flames had been close to once more.

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In the top, their solely possibility was to board a ship ready off the shore and sail to the north of the island.

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Now the adrenaline has worn off, the shock is starting to sink in.

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"I was afraid not to see my oldest child at home and my grandson again," Corina says, starting to cry.

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"You thought you were going to die?" I ask.

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"Yes, the fire was just behind us. It was awful," she replies.

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She provides: "We got evacuated yesterday at the hotel and were sent down to the beach. We walked 11km and again were sent to the beach where we didn't know what to do.

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"And then the army got here and picked us up and we had been taken additional south.

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"Later, the police boat came and another boat came, too, so we got evacuated."

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Even after they had been on the water it was horrifying, Corina stated.

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"The fire was moving along with us. The hotel had burned down.

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"That is why we're sitting right here in what we have got with us," she said.

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After getting on a boat at 2.30am, they did not arrive in Rhodes Town until 6am.

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Relief, exhaustion, concern and anger as vacationers sleep on flooring

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Her story is a standard one as we make our means across the airport chatting with holidaymakers.

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It's an emotionally charged ambiance; a mixture of reduction, exhaustion, concern at what might have been, and anger.

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And because the hours tick by, anger is the sensation which is starting to dominate.

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Every vacationer we spoke to was asking the identical query: "Where is my holiday company?"

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Most say whereas the residents of Rhodes have opened their houses and communities to help them, they really feel the tour corporations they paid 1000's to are lacking in motion.

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At most, they've despatched native representatives armed with scant solutions to face the music.

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They're the "sacrificial lambs", one man from Birmingham advised me.

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So now lots of sleep on the flooring of faculties, sports activities centres and the airport ready for news.

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While they're deeply pissed off, they're conscious that in the end, they're the fortunate ones - they'll depart.

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The residents of Rhodes who've misplaced houses and companies to those fires are those who will probably be left counting the price of local weather change.

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