The first time, he said, he and his family fled their hotel with wet towels over their heads, fearing for their lives. After the third evacuation, they spent the night in a hotel lobby, watching the flames in the distance, he added. “The fires look terrifying in the darkness,” Mr. Kalburgi wrote in a message to a New York Times reporter late Saturday. Nobody knows anything,” Mr. Kalburgi noted. He said that he was hoping to leave the island on Sunday evening after managing to book plane tickets.

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Persons: Ioannis Artopios, —, Rhodes, Paul Kalburgi, Mr, Kalburgi Organizations: New York Times Locations: Greece, Patras, British, ”