A wind change sweeping across Victoria, combined with extreme hot weather, has sparked new bushfires, with three people still unaccounted for and multiple properties destroyed. David Nugent from State Control Centre said a forecast northwesterly wind change began to pass through the state on Friday afternoon, fuelling a “significant” grass fire in Natimuk, about 25km west Horsham, where the temperature soared to 43C. “With these hot temperatures and the winds, it makes it really difficult for our firefighters,” Nugent told ABC Radio. Another grassfire at Streatham was expected to reach Skipton, about 50 km west of Ballarat, on Friday at
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