MUM-OF-TWO Amy Walker has recounted her horror at escaping the wildfire-hit island of Rhodes.

What should have been a family holiday tat a five star resort, turned into a nightmare for Amy, from Dawlish, her 69-year-old mother and two children, aged 10 and one. 

They were among thousands caught up in the major outbreak of fires on the Greek island.

Now safely back home in Dawlish, Amy captured her experience on social media.

She described on social media being evacuated by the army on trucks but when one broke down, they were forced to walk the rest of the way to the beach to reach rescue boats, jettisoning most of their belongings.

But Amy praised the Greek people for their help.

She said: ‘The Greek people have been so incredible, they are so kind and generous.

‘I have cried every time someone has bought be a sandwich, coffee or offered me their home.

‘They are wonderful, please send your well wishes as their island is devastated.’ 

Amy said it took five hours to be evacuated from their hotel to Rhodes City where they were put in a crisis centre based in a school. 

She documented the family’s journey on social media, describing thousands of people on the beach as smaller boats took them to larger ferries. 

She said: ‘People were scrambling to get on these boats in the pitch black, it was chaos.’ 

Amy was left with just a bag of nappies for her youngest child, her phone and sunglasses having had to ditch their belongings, including their pushchair.  

While trying to clamber onto boats, she said a woman in her 60s had tried to push her off the ladder while she had the baby on a carrier strapped to her. 

‘She wanted to get on that ladder herself. She was doing anything to get on it and save herself. It was frantic, people were panicking and in fear.

Amy and her family were later taken in by a Greek family after the Navy Rib took them to a ferry which sailed them to the north of the island. 

As many as 10,000 Britons are estimated to be in Rhodes, the Foreign Office said, with 30,000 due to head there in the next few weeks.

The Foreign Office has not advised Britons to avoid non-essential travel to the entire island, while some travel companies are continuing to fly holidaymakers to Rhodes as they claim the blazes are not affecting the whole island.

Repatriation flights continued to land in the UK on Tuesday after rescuing holidaymakers who had been sleeping in schools, sports centres and airports.