Firefighters battled more than 100 blazes across Victoria on Saturday as the mercury reached a high of 42 in Melbourne and residents in several suburbs on the city's south-eastern fringe were evacuated as a fire threatened homes.
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| CFA members fight a fire threatening homes in Valley Road Skye. |
There were 114 grass or scrub fires and 25 structure fires in the 24 hours to 6pm, State Control Centre figures show.
Read the story from today’s Melbourne Age - “Melbourne weather: Saturday's scorcher puts the heat on firefighters.”
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