Fires in the Grampians still out-of-control

While the immediate fire threat has eased, the 75-thousand-hectare blaze in the Grampians remains unpredictable

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00:00Authorities say it could take days to fully assess the damage from the blaze which has

00:06burnt through so much of the Grampians National Park and the farmlands and residential areas

00:10surrounding it.

00:11There are still firefighters in the park and around it trying to fully contain this blaze.

00:16The conditions have very much settled over the past two days and Forest Fire Management

00:20Victoria says the firefighters are doing what they can to fully contain the fire.

00:25Right now the fire is sitting around 75,000 hectares.

00:30Just over 15,000 hectares of that is in agricultural and residential lands.

00:40The fire weather is positive at the moment.

00:42This is enabling firefighters to be doing an incredible amount of work in trying to

00:48contain the fire.

00:49So what that really means is that they are continuing to build mineral earth breaks and

00:55they're continuing to do burning operations.

00:57Conditions are nothing like what they were on Boxing Day when we saw those really hot

01:01temperatures and strong winds but they are set to climb again early next week, climbing

01:06into the 30s on Monday and Tuesday here in Storle but thankfully no forecast for those

01:12really hot northerly winds that really did the damage on Thursday.