Emergency services have confirmed three homes were destroyed by the bushfire that continues to burn in the Grampians National Park in Victoria's west. The properties were lost on Boxing Day, but crews are only just getting into those areas to inspect the damage. The massive blaze continues to burn, with cooler weather allowing crews to work on containing the fire and continue preparing for any future spike in fire conditions.
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00:00A close call near the town of Moyston in Victoria's West.
00:06Is it sort of luck that these two places didn't get...
00:11Oh, absolutely.
00:12A barbecue hut destroyed and a water tank melted just metres from the front doorstep
00:18of a house.
00:19Yeah, very confronting for us to see people's private assets being affected, but yeah, unfortunately
00:25fire in this landscape will have this impact.
00:28We can see just how close the fire has come to this property.
00:32A combination of preparation and good luck has saved the house.
00:36But others were not so lucky.
00:39Authorities have confirmed three houses were destroyed near Moyston and there could be
00:43more.
00:44We won't really know their full impact until we can make it safe for impact assessment
00:48teams to come in, so not a very safe environment.
00:52They're a strong community, they'll rebuild and they'll get together and they'll support
00:57each other.
00:58While homes have mostly been spared, grazing land, sheds and hundreds of kilometres of
01:02fences have been destroyed.
01:04It's something Andy Nagorka is all too familiar with, after losing these same fences in the
01:10St Patrick's Day fire six years ago.
01:13So this is all pretty new fencing here that's been burned again.
01:16So we're bits of pros at re-fencing and clearing fire damage.
01:21Even these seemingly indestructible concrete troughs didn't escape.
01:25A lot of the poly fittings at the back of all the troughs that got burnt yesterday are
01:29melted so we need to, today's job is to get those back on board.
01:35Crews were back at work today, making the most of the cooler conditions to continue
01:40fighting the fire, and building fire breaks to prepare for the inevitable spike in temperatures
01:45this long summer will bring.
01:47We're very fortunate today we've got some lower conditions but this fire is far from
01:53over.
01:54Preparing for the trouble that looms over the horizon.