The autopsies of expert engineers for the assessment of the damage caused to buildings by the fire in Rhodesso that the awarding compensation to those affected. In the morning, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the South Aegean Region for the distribution of the areas of responsibility between the crews.

Particularly, in Rhodes, have already been launched:

– In rural areas the autopsies are done in collaboration with ELGAso that a complete record of fire-affected crops can be made.

– The work on the restoration of uninterrupted electricity supply throughout the island. The goal is to have all problems solved on the main power transmission trunk until Wednesday evening and at the branches until Thursday evening.

– Emphasis is placed on coastal settlements and tourist resorts in the southern part of the island, where in many cases the flames came close in the previous days, with the consequence of interrupting the operation of the main power generating unit. For example, around Kiotari the fire hit the main high voltage line in many places and about 60 poles have fallen or been destroyed. Overall, based on the inspections done so far, more than 110 poles and three substations have been destroyed.

– DEDDIE managed to mitigate the problem of electrification to a large extent reinforcing the old unit it has in the northern part of Rhodes with four spare power generating pairs. The result was that a large part of the demand was covered and there were only alternating local power outages, lasting one hour, with a long time gap between them.

– Yes, rolling holidays have ended as of noon

– By restoring electricity and recording the damage essentially the business to support the local community and tourists is entering a new stagewhich will essentially facilitate the restarting the tourism industry in the affected areas in the coming days as well.

– Besides, already the gradual normalization of the situation has begun with the tourists who were removed from their accommodation in the previous days due to the evacuations.

– This morning there were less than 180 people in the temporary shelters, since yesterday, in collaboration with the Rhodes Hotel Association, thousands of guests in the structures were absorbed into hotel rooms. Others returned to the hotel units that were evacuated days ago but now the evacuation order has been lifted, many are even continuing their vacations.

– At the same time, the situation at Rhodes airport is smoothas those visitors who were scheduled to depart or wanted to return to their home countries are served as normaland with her active support of the help desk specialist which was set up at the airport by the government.