Cooler temperatures in the past few days of allowed crews time to contain some of the spread, but new pockets of fire are emerging all the time.

25 people are known to have died, including three volunteer firefighters.

Around 1900 homes have been completely destroyed on up to 500 million animals have been killed with fears some species may have been wiped out entirely.

Embargo is a rural village in New South Wales has been very badly hit by the flames.

Dr.

Mayer is there for us now.

Life.

Good evening, Fiona.

This community is Harding.

It's resilient on its resourceful local people themselves have set up this disaster relief center in the local show ground on There's food.

That's clothing.

There's water there, even toiletries over there.

Truckloads of donations are arriving every single day from all over Australia.

Around 2000 people are being helped here, and it is eight on support that is vitally needed.

As we found out the very first minute we arrived in the village.

We reached embargo late at night after a seven hour drive.

There's no electricity.

The only illumination.

Solar powered Christmas lights.

A few hours later, door on scorched farmland, the sound of gunshots mingled with birdsong.

His local farmers have to put down hundreds of injured animals.

I grew up on the street.

I planted that tree century, Ronnie.

A lift leads me through the shattered village.

It's it's pretty tough to live next to this and see all the things that are more in my street.

Her fear is that while many stayed to defend their properties, others will now want to leave.

Do you wanna do you want to live amongst the SPS toes?

Would you would you would like to do that.

No community is still fighting to to survive.

This is what her village endured.

The video was filmed by Ronnie's father, Brian Ah, highly decorated former volunteer firefighter.

The flames just meters from his house.

Sad died, uh, the hot saul of a of a little rural villages.

Paying tribute to the firefighters who tried to save his village.

Brian invokes Winston Churchill.

When demonstrated had finished, the buildings were smoldering and and I saw that the red and blue flashing lights downtown there Onda frustration of wish doors with them.

And I thought to myself, This was the foreign.

If there and one of those whose hour had come was his own son, Mark, a volunteer firefighter captain, he's been praised for his work by the Australian prime minister, but they're still annoying feeling inside.

It's a horrible failing.

I can't I can't describe the feeling of helplessness, the feeling of guilt on the Arno.

That or did everything going cool.

But you still feel that you wished that you could protect every way.

And that really was difficulty in verifying to see Mark downtown and not be able to do any he was born himself on.

Uh, you decide prayer what you do.

We've told the story of one family's journey through the nightmare of the bushfires.

There are so many more.

What?

What unites them all is a desire for communities to heal and move on.

If we got what remains is God and we can't do that No, it you know it well fought the second fight.

We fought a fire friends, and now we have to fight to rebuild this place.

Remarkable people there.

One family.

But there are so many stories of courage and bravery throughout this appalling crisis.

And we've just heard of one local volunteer firefighter.

He rescued three kids from a burning building, got them in the back of a pickup and drove 100 miles an hour through a fireball to get them to a hospital.

They're all now being treated amazing stories, Really remarkable.

But you know what?

It's going to get hotter here towards the end of the week.

And the fear is that Mawr lives are gonna be put in danger.

Fiona Back to Cliven, Labarga.

Thank you.