Tourists rescued from burning resorts

 

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1  Vacationers have evacuated from beaches by rescue boats in Turkey after wildfires threatened hotels in the Aegean resort of Bodrum.

2.       Coastguard vessels was joined by private boats  to bring the tourists to safety, according to Turkish media on Saturday. Videos posted online showed people wheeling their suitcases along the road while smoke from forest fires billowed into the sky.

3.       Six people have died and more than 500 needed hospital treatment in Turkey’s Mediterranean towns from fires that have raged across the country since Wednesday, burning down forests and tourist destiny.

4.       A severe heatwave has swept across south-eastern Europe, with temperatures rising above 40C in any places.

5.       Wildfires have also broken out in Greece and Italy. Four villages were evacuated in the mountains around Patras in western Greece, unless in Sicily 150 people were taken to safety from the seaside around Catania.

6.       In Turkey, more than 100 Russian tourists have been evacuated from Bodrum and relocated to new hotels. In one video of the Bodrum fire filmed from the sea, a man helping with the evacuations was stunned at the speed of the fire, saying: “This is unbelievable, just unbelievable. How did this fire came this fast in five minutes?”

7.       Bekir Pakdemirli, the agriculture minister, said 91 of the 101 fires who broke out amid strong winds and scorching heat have been brought under control. Neighborhoods affected by the fire in five provinces were declared disaster zones.

8.       President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited some affected areas in Saturday, inspecting the damage from a helicopter.

9.       He said the amount of planes fighting the fires had been increased from 6 to 13, including aircraft from Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.

10.   Erdogan said one of the fires there had being started by children.

11.   In Greece the Civil Protection Agency urged people in four villages near Patras to leave. Otherwise local media reports said some villagers had stayed and were trying to fight the fires with garden hoses.

12.   The wildfires also affects the Sicilian provinces of Palermo, Syracuse and Messina.

13.   Italy’s civil protection authorities have received 558 requests to help in fight fires this season, one-third in the past week alone. That makes it the fourth most severe fire season since 2007.

Article from The Guardian (edited)

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