{"id":39732,"date":"2023-07-23T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=39732"},"modified":"2023-07-23T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T06:18:48","slug":"thousands-moved-to-safety-as-wildfires-rage-on-greek-island-of-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=39732","title":{"rendered":"Thousands moved to safety as wildfires rage on Greek island of Rhodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes evacuated thousands of locals and tourists from villages in the southeast of the Aegean island, where wildfires were raging out of control for a fifth day.<\/p>\n<p>High winds and a nine-kilometre (six-mile) fire front running from the centre of the island to its eastern beaches were creating extreme conditions, fire service spokesman Vassilis Varthakogiannis told Skai TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a fire that will be over tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,&#8221; Varthakoyannis added. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be troubling us for days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another 1,200 people were expected to be evacuated from the villages of Pefki, Lindos and Kalathos, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had set up firebreaks around the village of Laerma last night,&#8221; Konstantinos Taraslias, a deputy mayor of Rhodes, told Open TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But a 180-degree change of the winds this morning helped the fire grow much bigger across many kilometres &#8230; reaching a tourist area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Athens, the foreign ministry said it had activated its crisis management unit to facilitate the evacuation of foreign citizens in Greece due to the ongoing forest fires.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/137789\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes evacuated thousands of locals and tourists from villages in the southeast of the Aegean island, where wildfires were raging out of control for a fifth day. High winds and a nine-kilometre (six-mile) fire front running from the centre of the island to its eastern beaches were creating extreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39734,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions\/39734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}