Southern Australia swelters through third day of heatwave as fire risk increases

All eyes are on a bushfire in Victoria that has been raging for weeks as southern Australia swelters through a three-day heatwave. Hot conditions are expected to continue on Sunday from central Australia to the south-east, with pockets in Victoria’s east and New South Wales’s south-east to experience severe conditions until late Sunday. Firefighters are on high alert in Victoria as a fire in the Grampians, which began in mid-December, continues to burn. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email It has been declared an extreme fire danger day in the Mallee, Central and North Central regions with a

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