A cool change has swept through the firefields burning in Victoria's west, but teams battling the bushfires still have a job ahead of them.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast a top of 36 degrees in the city on Tuesday after it stayed above 24 degrees overnight.

A fire in the Grampians/Gariwerd National Park has now been marked as contained, three weeks after it began burning out of control. Rainy and cool conditions have brought welcome relief to ...

Authorities rated the fire danger at extreme ... that the hot and windy conditions could spark "big fires" ahead of a cool change due in Victoria later on Sunday. Elsewhere, the states of New ...