Fire authorities throughout south-east Australia are preparing for worsening weather conditions overnight on Friday and into the weekend as crews battle to quell blazes across the country.
A total fire ban is in place for New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria as the country continues to suffer a record-breaking heatwave.
More than 95 fires are burning throughout New South Wales, but firefighters have managed to bring all but 14 under control by Friday, the ABC reports.
A spokesperson for the NSW Rural Fire Service, Laura Ryan, says on Saturday temperatures will be up into the 40s again.
"Firefighters are going to be continually under pressure, particularly as the hot winds also match with those 40-odd degree temperatures. So any fires that we've got uncontained at the moment ... are a definite concern for us."
Ms Ryan says two fires on the state's south coast and one inland at Yass, north of Canberra, remain the biggest worries, although they are not threatening property on Friday.
In Tasmania, the fire service says the past few days of more benign conditions have allowed crews to bring a number of blazes under control.
Bulldozers and water-bombing helicopters are helping crews control bushfires in rough terrain in the state.
Only one of the 28 fires burning in Tasmania has communities on alert, with properties from Kellevie to Taranna still on a watch-and-act warning.
The state's chief fire officer, Mike Brown, said on Friday that the weather over the next four days should allow containment work to continue.
In Victoria, fire crews were fighting a blaze that has broken out in grassland at Blampied, north-east of Ballarat, on Friday. Several trucks and three planes have been used to attacking the fire that started in hot and windy conditions.
Firefighters have contained a grassfire burning close to the Bass Highway at Pound Creek, near Inverloch, while a smaller fire, near Yea, north of Melbourne, was brought under control after burning through 150 hectares.
A cool change has arrived in coastal areas of Victoria's south-west, but it is yet to move inland on Friday night.
In Queensland, 22 fires were burning across the state on Friday, but none are threatening communities. Favourable conditions have helped firefighters contain a blaze on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane, that has scorched 2000 hectares.
