Extreme heat will make Friday's bushfire conditions some of Victoria's worst in the past five years. Source: AAP
ONE person has died and a holiday town is under threat with authorities warning Victoria's bushfire crisis could worsen and claim more lives and property.
About 68 fires were burning across the state on Friday afternoon, including a massive inferno in the state's northwest Grampians region that has claimed a person's life at Roses Gap.
Evacuation orders were issued for Halls Gap and a number of surrounding towns, with warnings it could be life-threatening to evacuate after 3pm (AEDT).
A southwesterly wind change due later on Friday had the potential to cause havoc, Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said.
"Today is one of those days that certainly will be marked in the history of Victoria for the types of fires and the conditions that have led up to it," Mr Lapsley told reporters.
He said the Grampians fire, which is now 21,000 hectares in size, had the potential to claim more lives.
The fire is expected to move into the holiday town of Halls Gap.
"There is a fair chance of losing property and even, if people are caught in the wrong space, a life could be lost," he told reporters.
Mr Lapsley said the fire had caused a 12-kilometre convection column that was creating its own weather.
He said the fire was generating lightning and dropping spotfires around Halls Gap.
Emergency Services Minister Kim Wells said a series of fires burning at Gippsland, in the state's east, could unite and create a fire that was 500,000 hectares in size.
He said efforts would be made to protect electricity transmission assets in the area.
A series of 12 grassfires on Melbourne's northern fringe are believed to have been deliberately lit.
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