The Wolf family is happy to be home and safe again: the adults took pictures with their cell phones, the children recorded their dramatic experiences in drawings.
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The fire, which could only be seen from a distance from Praia de Lardos for days, got closer and closer on Saturday: “We had planned to return on Saturday, but a storm came up in the morning that blew the fire towards our hotel. , with the increase in insecurity, people also became angrier”.
“Nobody knew anything”
It was clear to everyone that things had to be done quickly – the hotel was evacuated, guests were waiting outside: “Everybody stayed in front of the hotel, but nobody knew what was coming, who was coming, when we were going to pick it up, where we were going, it wasn’t said and it wasn’t clear either”, says Elisabeth Wolf.
Forest fires in Rhodes: Styrians are also affected
Heavy forest fires keep Rhodes in suspense: according to the Greek government, almost 20,000 people have been brought to safety since Saturday – including a family from Graz who describe the risky escape from the flames.
You and the kids could take friends to the airport with you,” “and then I squeezed into a taxi, into other people, and that’s how we got to the airport,” says Hanno Wolf.
Rhodes tourists in chaos
The Wolf family subsequently took the booked flight back home – and only gradually did the people of Graz realize how lucky they were, because the forest fires in Rhodes remain raging: tens of thousands of tourists and locals alike need to be evacuated to safe emergency shelters, some of the conditions are chaotic, they say – more on that in Rhodes-Urlauber im Chaos (news.ORF.at).