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We're going to wrap up our live coverage of the wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes shortly, so let's have a look at the key developments of the day:

• Dozens of flights to Rhodes from the UK are cancelled as wildfires rage
• Jet2 and Thomas Cook withdraw all services for at least a week, while Tui has cancelled all flights there until Wednesday
• Around 19,000 people have been evacuated from the most dangerous areas in Rhodes
• Greek authorities say it's the largest evacuation ever from a wildfire in the country
• Tourists have been sheltering in sports halls and schools, some have been taken in by local families
• There are no reports of any deaths or serious injuries
• The British ambassador to Greece says the Foreign Office had sent a "rapid deployment team" to help UK tourists
• Forest fires are common in Greece but hotter summers have increased their frequency

Caryn Savazzi from south Wales tells the BBC that she arrived in Rhodes last night but ended up sleeping in a school rather than a hotel.

She travelled from Cardiff with her family and says she started to get worried when the pilot said "if you look to the right you can see the wildfires".

Describing the scene at Rhodes airport as "carnage", she says they ended up in a "mass of queues" but were eventually taken to a shelter in a school.

“The locals have been marvellous - handing out water, food and lots of kindness.

“But there was nothing from Tui or Jet2, just two young workers who were like rabbits in the headlights handing out cookies."

She, her husband and two children are now staying with a local family who took them in.

"Families were being evacuated yesterday so our plane should never have taken off to come into a disaster zone.

"Instead there should have been empty planes taking people out of there, not plane loads arriving."

Paul Goddard
BBC Weather

Rhodes has been very hot and windy - which hasn't helped those battling the wildfires.

The winds are likely to be stronger tomorrow, although it looks like they will ease a little mid-week.

Winds for today are still expected to increase as the afternoon progresses.

Overnight, they will likely ease again a little. But, similar to today, winds are forecast to increase again through the day tomorrow and are forecast to be stronger, with gusts maybe as high 35mph - if not a touch higher.

Riyah Collins
BBC Newsbeat

A young Belfast couple were met with a view of the mountains on fire when they arrived at Rhodes on Friday.

By Saturday night “the entire mountain was on fire”, Megan Cathcart told us.

The 20-year-old and her boyfriend Tyler Flynn,19, received an emergency alert on their phone but had to wait hours for a bus to take them to safety.

Image source, Megan Cathcart

When the bus eventually arrived it took them to a gym outside Faliraki: “There were no beds, there were no seats, there were children sleeping on a towel on the floor."

Megan said communication from the travel operator was scant.

“We thought they’d put something in the Tui app or message us, phone us, email us, but they’ve literally said nothing.”

The BBC has been speaking to people returning to Manchester Airport from Rhodes, where wildfires have been forcing tourists to leave their hotels.

Some say they still smelt of the smoke from the fires - check out what they had to say below:

Those who've booked package holidays are more likely to be protected if their trips are disrupted or cancelled by the wildfires, Emma Brennan from the Association of British Travel Agents tells the BBC.

She says travellers should speak to their tour operators, and those with package holidays may be offered alternative dates and destinations or a refund.

Brennan adds that travellers who've arranged flights and accommodation independently will need to contact their airlines and look carefully at the terms and conditions of their bookings - as well as their travel insurance policies.

Jenny Hill
Reporting from Rhodes airport

Some lucky people here at the airport have found a seat but many others are squatting or lying on the floor.

One family told me they’d been here for 17 hours after they were evacuated from their hotel.

The Greek minister for tourism has just arrived and told us that 19,000 people have been successfully evacuated from the fire zone without any injury.

Olga Kefalogianni told us that the authorities are setting up a helpdesk at the airport for British citizens who’ve lost their passports or documents in the fires or evacuation.

We've just had the following images of Rhodes, illustrating some of the devastation from the wildfires:

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Image source, Charlie Johnson

The wildfires have left no shortage of fed up travellers - and among them is Charlie Johnson, 30, from south-west London.

She tells us she slept in Rhodes airport last night and she and her boyfriend Josh remain “trapped in the departure lounge” with “no idea what is going on”.

Charlie says she spent the night "on the floor staring at a piece of chewing gum on a chair trying to get some sleep".

“We’ve been given a €4.50 voucher from easyJet which is the cost of a bottle of Fanta, doesn’t even get a coffee. It’s total carnage, we have been at the airport for 14 hours with no communication from anyone,” she says.

The wildfires in Rhodes are a combination of relative humidity, fuel moisture on ground level, high temperatures and the winds, Lindon Pronto, a wildfire management expert tells the BBC.

Pronto, who works for the European Forest Institute, says: "The raging winds are likely to make it harder to control the fires on the ground."

And with the shifting winds, he said there is extreme fire behaviour which makes it "very difficult" to control the blazes on the ground.

"You are very limited in what you can do with fire suppression. Even aircrafts have difficulty flying high winds," he says.

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A British couple meant to fly with EasyJet from Rhodes to Bristol on Monday are not sure if they will be able to leave tomorrow as planned.

The couple said it was unclear if the roads would be open so that they could travel back to their hotel to collect their luggage and passports.

Blagoy Vargolomov, 32, and his partner Maria Ivanova were staying in Kiotari and were among the thousands to be evacuated as the wildfires intensified.

The couple said they were in a better position than many because they were "safe and alive" and not sleeping in a school.

Blagoy said: “We’re having to spend a lot of cash we were not anticipating."

“The electricity around parts of the island including where we are staying is intermittent," said Maria.

Riyah Collins
BBC News

Musurut travelled to Rhodes with her partner and their teenage children for a holiday.

She described Saturday night as “mayhem”.

“We sat down to dinner with a sky full of smoke, eyes burning, the smoke catching the back of our throat,” she told Newsbeat.

“People were running towards the sea hoping that was the safest place.”

The family, from Birmingham, left their possessions at their hotel and were taken by coach to a school , externalwhere they spent the night.

Musurut said her children were “terrified” and there was a lot of tension among tourists as “people don’t know what to do”.

They’re still waiting for more information from their tour operator and said it “feels like we’ve been left in limbo”.

Warren Muggleton
Reporting from his holiday on Rhodes

This morning myself and other guests were allowed to return to our hotel in Lindos after being evacuated to Faliraki, 25 miles to the north overnight.

Earlier, I reported how we'd been reassured the hotel was safe from the wildfires.

Now the wind has changed direction here in Lindos, pushing air south-east towards us.

It’s bringing a smoky smell in the air and also a white haze across the distant hills.

No emergency calls as of yet but a few guests are keeping tabs on their phones just in case.

Airlines and holiday companies are taking different approaches to the fire in Rhodes - here's the latest:

• Jet2 has cancelled all its flights to Rhodes for the whole of next week. It will still send planes to the island to pick people up and bring them back to the UK
• Tui has also cancelled its flights to Rhodes, but only until Wednesday
• EasyJet is running all its flights, but has cancelled any package holidays until Wednesday
• Ryanair is running flights as normal
• British Airways is still flying as normal, but has said people can reschedule flights for no extra cost
• Other airlines, including Air France and German airline Condor, are flying as normal

Image source, Connie Woods

Connie Woods says her family slept on chairs in a school last night after receiving a UK government alert at 00:30 telling them to evacuate their resort in Pefkos.

The 18-year-old from Northern Ireland tells us she's grateful for the locals' generosity: “They’ve provided food, water and they been making sure pregnant people are being seen to by doctors."

Connie, who is holidaying on the island with her mum, boyfriend and sister, says she's expecting to sleep at a school for another night.

But she adds: “We are in the dark about things. There’s a lack of communication. We have family from Ireland updating us on what’s going on, we’re oblivious."

She sent us the following 20-second video of the school where she's staying - take a look:

Nikos Papanikolaou
BBC News

The fire department spokesperson in Rhodes says the service is currently using 10 firefighting airplanes, eight firefighting helicopters, 266 firefighters, 49 fire trucks and hundreds of volunteers, among others, to tackle the blaze on the island.

Staff and volunteers have been joined by 31 Slovakian firefighters with four fire trucks, alongside two French firefighting airplanes and two Turkish firefighting airplanes.

In a statement, they say it's the "largest evacuation operation" ever on the island.

British Airways tells the BBC it's still planning to fly to Rhodes this week, including one flight tomorrow.

BA customers who are currently in Rhodes on a flight-only booking can change their flight to come back earlier than planned, free of charge, the airline says.

And anyone flying to Rhodes with BA over the next week can change their flight to a later date, also free of charge.

As for the BA flight tomorrow - the airline says it will use a larger plane than normal so that it can pick up as many people as possible in Rhodes who want to return to the UK.

Image source, Nicola McCullen

Scottish tourists have told us how they have had to sleep on the street after wildfires spread across Rhodes.

Nicola McCullen, 46, from Kilmarnock, slept on a mattress outside after arriving late on Saturday night on a Tui flight from Glasgow.

Elsewhere, an Edinburgh family spent the night on a conference room floor, while others are still searching for new accommodation.

Read more about their experiences here.