Residents near Cape Otway, Victoria, are advised to shelter in place as a bushfire makes evacuation too dangerous.

A bushfire near Cape Otway and southern Hordern Vale, Victoria, has forced authorities to warn locals and holidaymakers it's too late to evacuate, advising them to shelter indoors. The fire, moving west from Blanket Bay Road, has prompted a VicEmergency warning. An evacuation center is set up in Apollo Bay. This follows another fire in Grampians National Park that burned 76,000 hectares, destroying homes and killing wildlife, with local tourism and farming communities facing an economic loss of over $1.9 million.

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