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 one person dead, 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 burn ‘for weeks’
One person dead as PM visits bushfire-ravaged towns with 300 structures destroyed and 350,000 hectares burned
Footage shows smoke and fire in the Otways, one of dozens of fires across Victoria
