Fifteen emergency warnings remain in place across Victoria with state premier warning ‘we are not through the worst of this by a long way’
Australian authorities are assessing the damage after one of the worst heatwaves in years resulted in bushfires igniting across the country’s south-east, with hundreds of homes and structures lost, thousands of hectares burned and entire towns evacuated.
A state of disaster remained in place across much of Victoria on Sunday, as thousands of firefighters and emergency service workers continued to battle blazes that were expected to rage for “weeks”.
