Fire authorities are hoping to be able to contain the fires burning across the south-west by 6pm on Sunday.
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Incident controller Henry Barton said about 1pm that the fires were partially contained.
“In some areas, our firefighters have been able to contain the fire but in some other areas there’s still time this afternoon for firefighters on the ground along with air support to be able to contain these fires,” he said.
“The intent is to have them contained by 1800 hours tonight,” he said.
“That will mean that there will be no further spread of the fire, however firefighters will still be working throughout the night tonight and tomorrow to extinguish the fire completely.”
He confirmed that there had been a loss of property, but said assessors were still to determine how much.
A rapid assessment team has been dispatched to the Gazette and Garvoc fires to determine the extent of losses including houses, outbuildings, haystacks and stock damage.
The general public was asked to stay away from the fire areas.
“There’s heavy machinery working in those areas with fallen trees and fallen powerlines. There’s also emergency vehicles working in those areas. There’s also smoke,” Mr Barton said.
“Please stay away. Allow the firefighters to do their work in safe conditions.”
People sheltering at relief centres across the south-west will be briefed throughout the day on how the firefighting operation is going.
Meanwhile, Powercor crews is working to restore power to 8200 customers in the south-west following the bushfires and strong winds that hit the region overnight.
Additional resources on standby for the severe weather have been deployed to assess and fix faults.
However, due to road closures and access restrictions by the CFA, there will be extended restoratino times for some customers.
The hardest hit area was Terang with about 6000 customers without supply.
The fire has damaged poles across the region causing many faults.
The Terang substation is continuing to operate.
While fires burnt close to the substation, crews conducted an initial inspection overnight and no major damage was found.
Further inspections will be carried out when it is safe to do so.
With strong winds still hitting parts of the state, there may be further outages.
Customers are warned to stay away from fallen powerlines and report them to 13 24 12.