That as wildfires continued to rage for a fourth day, according to the fire brigade.
Hundreds of firefighters have been trying to contain the blaze since Saturday.
But, fanned by gale force winds, it quickly spread, covering the city in smoke and turning the night sky bright red.
The local police said on Monday (August 21) the burned body of a man had been found near Alexandroupolis.
Authorities said 65 patients at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis had been evacuated as a precaution onto a ferry in the port.
Fourteen more people were evacuated by a coast guard vessel from a beach near the village of Makri.
And as flames approached the Alexandroupolis Metropolitan Church Foundation, people were evacuated in wheelchairs and stretchers.
Father Christodoulos Karathanasis, director of Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis, was part of the effort.
"We managed in just four and a half hours to transport 200 inpatients from both institutions, saving them from the threat of fire. Some were able to walk and others were bedridden."
The ferry turned into a makeshift hospital.
Elderly patients lay on mattresses strewn across the cafeteria floor.
Paramedics attended to others on stretches and a woman held a man resting on a sofa, an IV drip attached to his hand.
Several communities in the broader Evros region, near the border with Turkey, have been evacuated.
As authorities warned the risk of new fires remained high in the coming days.
Summer wildfires in Greece are common but have been made worse in recent years by unusually hot, dry and windy conditions that scientists have linked to climate change.
