Australian hillside on fire ‘looks like it’s covered in lava’

Terrifying photographs show an Australian hillside almost entirely in flames. The eerie glow taken at twilight ‘looked like lava’, as the fires dotted the landscape close to a town in rural Victoria. Melissa Ericksen posted the picture on Facebook, saying: ‘Balmattum Hill is really glowing tonight, however not as much as all of our incredible and selfless emergency services. Thank you.’ Speaking to news.com.au, she said: ‘Balmattum Hill is a place I have walked all my life and it appeared to be covered in lava under the darkness. ‘The photo is beautiful yet terrifying. ‘Our emergency services did an incredible job containing the fire and preventing any loss of houses.’

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