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Don Deelen lost his home to the Longwood bushfire. (ABC News: Jessica Longbottom)<\/p>\n
Last night, a State Control Centre spokesperson said the largest of the fires still burning was in Longwood<\/a>, in the state’s north, where the blaze has spread across 137,000 hectares and led to the death of cattle farmer Max Hobson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just under a dozen Watch and Act alerts remain current across Victoria, including for the Longwood fire.<\/p>\n The spokesperson said three escorted envoys carrying fodder for livestock were allowed into the area throughout Tuesday.<\/p>\n In Ravenswood, fire has burnt 4,100 hectares, with some residents able to briefly return to their properties between 5pm and 10pm last night.<\/p>\n Forest Fire Management crews make the roads safer near Walwa. (Supplied: Forest Fire Management)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The state’s second largest fire is in Walwa, in north-east Victoria, and has so far spread across more than 102,000 hectares.<\/p>\n About 10,000ha of pine plantation has been destroyed.<\/p>\n The softwood supplies timber mills in Victoria and New South Wales.<\/p>\n Chief executive of the industry body, Softwoods Working Group, Carlie Porteous told ABC Local Radio full assessments were still to be done to determine the impact.<\/p>\n “We understand there are significant impacts,” she said.<\/p>\n Regional train services on the Bendigo and Swan Hill lines have resumed, following damage to a rail bridge and 5 kilometres of the rail line from the Ravenswood fire near Harcourt.<\/p>\n VicEmergency has also issued a statewide warning over air quality, with “extremely poor air quality” in the North East forecast district, as of Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Residents in Harcourt have also been advised that tap water is not safe to drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria’s bushfires have now burnt across 404,000 hectares, or a total area more than five times the size…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,164887,224323,229519,229518,50,229520,40210],"class_list":{"0":"post-513803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bushfires","10":"tag-cfa","11":"tag-january-fires","12":"tag-key-points","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-state-control-centre","15":"tag-warnings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115889532214885148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Forest](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/911bfd737754f98e0d47618e95316a8a.jpeg\")
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