Hundreds are still burning mainly across the southeast of the country, where the authorities are desperately trying to prevent them from spreading further.

There are at least eight weeks of the bushfire season still ahead.

Clive, my rejoined one fire crew in New South Wales.

The fires eating this land have burnt from the mountains to the sea in between eucalyptus bottle brush pine.

It's hard, but save the forest.

Did you save Australia?

Man is having a terrible time trying to stop Mother Nature is doing to us.

But this is definitely be the worst fire season that I've seen in most of my colleagues would have ever seen.

You see the wind really influences what it's doing.

Zap is charged with protecting 2.5 1,000,000 acres of forest in the state of New South Wales.

Several villages and towns in just a few miles away, right in the path of oncoming flames wouldn't be that accurate.

Windy Zeps team has already cleared some scrub, taking away fuel for the fire, but wisps of smoke a creeping through like water under a door how long before the main fire front appears?

It's been a long bushfire season for seven this crew 36 in the waning days.

Bizarre what smoke blocked out the light of the sun and frightening days when people died.

But time's running out to stop the latest blaze spreading more of the forest needs to be cleared to create a big in a firebreak.

It's a real shame to have to do this, but these fires this season not behaving normally.

And if we don't start putting these breaks in to stop it, more fires just gonna burn a nearby back burning Zeps team deliberately ignites part of the forest, destroying fuel for the oncoming monster.

Well, this fire was like just a couple of minutes ago, and I could see how it has taken hold blown by these really strong winds on these.

These are the conditions that the authorities have been having to deal with during this appalling bushfire season.

Night and day fires are being deliberately lit by emergency crews.

This the neighboring state of Victoria.

But other latest attempts to hold back the fire front working.

So that's about the last of it isn't mine good.

Sold it out now.

Good job Done.

Tight much does it.

Well done.

Let's go that contain anyone.

Zevin, His team have won this battle.

But is Australia winning the war?

We have a guy on with steering them and at times we can have small wings.

Take a bottle.

We're not winning, but we're not losing either.