Crews battle remaining blazes ahead of expected elevation in fire risk in Victoria

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Hundreds of fire fighters are working to contain the remaining bushfires in Victoria. More than 400- thousand hectares of land has been burnt, and hundreds of structures have been destroyed.

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00:00Forest Firemen in Victoria have got about 400 firefighters out today and they'll have a big night shift.

00:08CFA will be doing all of the asset protection works but there's not as many firefighters out now

00:14because the fires are not running hard. We don't need to do the asset protection.

00:18So a lot of the work is trying to contain those fires, so that's building control lines

00:23and doing back burning and burning out operations to solidify those edges of the fire.

00:29So they don't run again when the fire weather picks up.

00:32And as early as the 23rd of January, 24th of January, we're expecting significant fire weather again.

00:40So the work that our crews do between now and that next spike day is going to be critical

00:48because these are big fires, there's a lot of fire in the landscape

00:51and we need to make sure we contain as much of this as possible.

00:56The chances are that some of these fires will continue to run during that next peak weather period.

01:04So really important for the community to stay very much attuned with what's going on.

01:09We're still early in our summer. There will be new lightning storms and new fires.

01:13So this is one of the most challenging seasons we've faced for a very long time.

01:19There's a lot of fire and more of the fire and more of the fire results to be in the wild.

01:28That has been a great day for a long time.

01:29On the daily basis of the fire and then we're still having to be in the wild and a huge

01:32time in our country for a long time.

01:34It will be free to have a good day for a long time.

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