EFFORTS to control a massive bushfire burning in eastern Victoria continued as a Gippsland community remembered a firefighter who died while helping his colleagues in Tasmania.
Fire crews backburned around the 59,000 hectare blaze, burning about 200 kilometres east of Melbourne on Monday, in preparation for warmer temperatures and strong winds forecast for later in the week.
The fire last week claimed the life of 84-year-old Seaton man Stan Hayhurst as he was driving his car and has destroyed at least 21 homes in the region.
The blaze sent a thick smoke haze as far away as Melbourne's western suburbs, prompting warnings from health authorities urging those with respiratory illnesses to stay indoors.
Investigations are continuing into the cause of the fire, which began last Thursday in the Baw Baw National Park.
Residents have been allowed to return to the fire-hit communities of Seaton, Glenmaggie and Glenmaggie Point, while the only access road to the small town of Licola - Licola Road - was partially reopened on Monday.
Smaller fires ignited across the state on Monday, with paramedics responding to a report of two people with burns to their hands and faces at Bald Hills, near Ballarat, in connection with a grassfire.
Police say two other small fires lit in Melbourne's far southeastern suburbs of Dandenong and Doveton on Monday afternoon are suspicious, and officers are now searching for five to eight men seen in the area.
A separate fire at Wallan, 50 kilometres from Melbourne, briefly put homes under threat on Monday and prompted an emergency warning from the CFA.
But Kilmore deputy incident controller Greg Murphy said fire crews were confident of bringing the blaze to heel before it could reach homes.
Meanwhile, under hazy skies at Traralgon, family, friends and colleagues of fallen firefighter Peter Cramer said goodbye to an unconventional larrikin.
Mr Cramer, 61, died on January 13 at Taranna, east of Hobart, while working on foot to identify potential containment lines on the southern boundary of the Forcett bushfire.
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