People of Rhodes open up their homes to evacuee tourists

Classic rock melodies by Eric Clapton and Deep Purple drift from a shaded courtyard in the seaside town of Ialysos on the northern coast of Rhodes as Jake gently strums his guitar. It's his way of finding comfort, and of thanking Irini Papastamati for opening her home to him and his family after they fled the wildfires roaring across the southeastern Aegean island since last week.

"We're all rockers, so it's been a great match," he says, as his family and their hosts have breakfast - yogurt, custard pudding and milk were the first things Papastamati's daughters went out to buy when she told them she was bringing a family of Britons home from a makeshift evacuee shelter in Ialysos.

Jake, his wife, their two children and their grandparents were on holiday in Lardo when the fire approached and they were evacuated, along with dozens of other tourists and residents, in an...