Courtesy of ABC (Oz):
Victoria's bushfires have blackened almost one million hectares.
The perimeter of the blaze stretches 1,700 kilometres from Mount Buffalo
in north-east Victoria to the Snowy River in New South Wales.
North-east Victoria is well contained and backburning is continuing
around Mitta Mitta and Mt Beauty under favourable weather conditions.
Stuart Ord from the Department of Sustainability and Environment says it
is a massive blaze.
"To try and put it into perspective, we're looking at the total of the
fire at about 916,000 hectares," he said.
"If you overlay that over Melbourne, that's a radius of 54 kilometres
extending in all areas from the centre of Melbourne. That's a huge fire."
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