Sheep Central

RURAL communities across Victoria are counting the cost of recent bushfires as emergency services and volunteers continue to fight 14 blazes across the state.

The larger bushfires are in the state’s east, where tracts of grazing country and native forest in mostly hilly and mountainous terrain are still burning, with the Longwood and Walwa fires being the largest.

In cropping country, the Grass Flat fire near Natimuk in the Wimmera has burnt roughly 8350ha, and in the Mallee, the fire south of Underbool has also impacted a considerable area.