![]() ![]() The view of the fires from JP and Carol's hotel (Image: JP Carroll)Ĭarol added: "We just got emergency alerts telling us to evacuate the area to another town but we had no transport and nowhere to go. They eventually caught a bus to a school in the village of Ammoudes and stayed overnight, before then sleeping on the floor in a conference room of a hotel for a further two nights until they were able to finally book a different flight to Manchester to then fly on to Dublin. We could see the flames in the distance, and ash landed on us and the smoke was coming across our hotel all day. "When the evacuation order came, all the hotels and bars were emptying out. Eventually we got transferred to a hotel and slept on the floor in a conference room for two nights and then eventually got back today. "We ended up on the beach until 3am when buses came and took us to a school where we stayed overnight. We decided to walk back to our own hotel and as we turned the corner, everyone was walking towards us with their bags. We were just left on the side of the road not knowing what to do. JP said: "We were meant to leave on Saturday night but our bus never showed up for us. JP Carroll and Carol Nolan, from Dublin landed at Manchester Airport on Tuesday (Image: MEN Media) They had to rebook a different flight to Manchester after the hotel they had been staying at, in Pefkos, was evacuated, with families walking down the road with their bags in unbearable temperatures over 40C. JP Carroll and Carol Nolan, from Dublin, were forced to sleep in a school and a conference room with complete strangers after missing their flight home on Saturday, and spoke of how residents in Rhodes saw their homes burn down. Join our WhatsAp p Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. Repatriation flights landed in the UK overnight and on Tuesday (July 25) as holidaymakers spoke of their traumatic experiences being evacuated from hotels and sleeping in schools, airports and conference rooms on the island.Īs many as 10,000 Britons are estimated to be in Rhodes, the Foreign Office said, with holiday operators continuing to cancel flights and holidays, leaving thousands with their getaways scuppered due to the fires. Exhausted families arriving back in Manchester from Rhodes have told of the horrific scenes that left their holidays in tatters, with some fleeing their hotels with just their passports and others forced to endure nights on a school floor with complete strangers. ![]()
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