VICTORIA'S fire services will be stretched on two fronts on Tuesday - in the southwest, where it's feared the Kentbruck blaze could double in size because of strong winds, and in the north where temperatures will be in the 40s.
Fire services commissioner Craig Lapsley said the immediate concern was the bushfire in the southwest, where almost 500 firefighters are concentrated and which has burnt out 4000 hectares of pine plantation but was threatening the rural community of Drik Drik on Monday.
"It will be a fire that will be pushed with winds and we believe that it's got the potential to move a significant distance tomorrow, potentially block the Princes Highway and have further impacts on the rural community around Drik Drik and Dartmoor," Mr Lapsley said.
Plumes of smoke from the fire drifted over nearby Dartmoor and rural community of Mumbannar and was visible for kilometres.
Searing conditions in the north of the state has meant a severe fire danger rating along the South Australian border, along the Murray River and the border with NSW.
"It's going to be a severe day and, coupled with the weather that's in NSW, we will see the potential for fires to start early in the day and, without much time at all, they become uncontrolled fires, which is the major concern," Mr Lapsley said.
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