Firefighters are focusing on building more containment lines around bushfires in Victoria today, before predicted hot weather on Monday.
Up to 100,000 people are expected to converge on central Melbourne for tomorrow’s national day of mourning for the victims of Victoria’s bushfires. Four fires are still burning north and east of Melbourne and have burnt more than 260,000 hectares of land. The weather is expected to warm up and become windy on Monday. But she does not expect people who have been let back into the fire zones to be forced out. “But I understand that largely the areas that people have been allowed back into have been cleared by the police.” “In particular Marysville, Kinglake and Hazeldene, where further human remains were found,” she said.
Victorian Deputy Police Commissioner Kieran Walshe says the power is needed so police can find all possible evidence.