Wildfires in Australia

A recent satellite image of Australia. Places where temperatures were warmer than average are red, such as the state of Victoria (bottom R), places experiencing near-normal temperatures are white, and places where temperatures were cooler than average are blue Photograph: MODIS/AFP/Getty Images

Aerial view of bushfires in Marysville. More than 130 people are feared dead after wildfires raged through south-eastern Australia Photograph: Mark Smith/Rex/Newspix

Kangaroos are seen among a charred landscape in the aftermath of a bushfire which continues to blaze across Victoria, at Chum Creek near Healesville Photograph: Luis Ascui/Getty Images

Bush burnt by wildfires in Jeeralong West, south-east of Melbourne Photograph: AP

The Bunyip bushfires north of Warrigal which are still burning, and have left a large scene of devastation. Julie Whiteley lost her entire house though managed to take her children to safety before the fires hit Photograph: Alex Coppel/Rex/Newspix

A child's boots lie on the ground of a house burnt in wildfires in Jeeralong West, south-east of Melbourne Photograph: AP

The chimney of a property is the only thing left standing after it was burnt to the ground in Bendigo Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Friends and neighbours reunite outside the refuge centre at Kinglake, north of Melbourne Photograph: Stuart Mcevoy/Rex/Newspix

A burnt street sign is seen in the aftermath of a bushfire which continues to burn at Chum Creek, near Healesville Photograph: Luis Ascui/Getty Images

A burnt-out car is seen after the bushfires in Christmas Hills Photograph: Lucas Dawson/Getty Images

A satellite image shows smoke rising from multiple large fires in the south-east Australian state of Victoria Photograph: MODIS/AFP/Getty Images

A firefighter backburns to prevent a bushfire in the Kiewa Valley from reaching the town of Dederang in the Victoria Alps Photograph: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty

A forest continues to burn at Chum Creek, near Healesville Photograph: Luis Ascui/Getty Images

Rosaleen Dove cries as she looks at her blackened trees in her back yard in Wandong. Rosaleen, her husband and relatives fought off the fire that surrounded their hilltop home, sometimes stamping out small flames with their feet Photograph: David Caird/Rex/Newspix

A dead horse that was trapped by raging fires at the side of the road near the community of Kinglake, north-east of Melbourne Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

A dead kangaroo lies beside a burnt-out section of the Hume Highway near Seymour, north of Melbourne Photograph: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty

Craig Kidd looks at the melted metal of alloy wheels from his burnt-out vehicles after a bushfire swept through his property in Bendigo, near Melbourne Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Melted metal from the alloy wheels of burnt-out vehicles in Bendigo Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images