The fire claimed 116 homes in Wye River and Separation Creek on Christmas Day and it sparked up again in 40degCelsius temperatures on Thursday.
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Residents of Kennett River, Grey River and Wongarra began to evacuate but were then allowed to go home for New Year’s Eve after a wind change pushed the destructive fire back into dense and mountainous bushland.
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Evacuated Great Ocean Road residents are set to return home in time to ring in the New Year after a potential bushfire crisis was averted.
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Mr Lapsley said there was smoke over Lorne on Thursday morning but the fire would now burn in the forest and the Lorne community was not under threat.
Hundreds of firefighters are battling the Surf Coast bushfire and more than 500 have been deployed to tackle the Wye River and Lorne wildfires, according to Herald Sun.
Joe Buffone, chief fire officer for the Country Fire Authority, said the evacuations were a precaution against the risk that the Jamieson Track fire, which devastated the towns of Wye River and Separation Creek and was still burning uncontrolled in the Otways state forest, would break containment lines and head for the isolated coastal towns.
“We’ve unfortunately lost a number of structures (on Christmas Day) but life is paramount”.
“The old foresters are telling me… you won’t get it out until it rains, significant rain, so we’ve got this in the bush now for weeks”.
Twenty-three firefighters from the country’s rural fire authorities fly to Australia today.
Meanwhile, eight fire tankers and two aircraft fought an out-of-control fire at Hazelwood North near Morwell in the state’s east this afternoon.
Temperatures would remain high in northern Victoria on Friday, he added.
Australia’s Environment Minister Lisa Neville said the New Zealand firefighters would help make a difference.
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But Buffone said the larger holiday towns were not now in the fire’s path, and it was unlikely it would reach Lorne.
