AUTHORITIES are urging Victorians to recheck their bushfire plans ahead of a scorcher forecast for Thursday.
Severe fire danger conditions, the third highest rating, are predicted in the state's central region, including Melbourne and Geelong, north central and south west districts.
Melbourne is expected to reach 39 degrees.
"We're certainly bracing for a potentially bad day on Thursday," a CFA spokesman told AAP on Monday.
Acting Victorian chief health officer Michael Ackland issued a heat health alert for Thursday, reminding people at risk - including those aged over 65, pregnant women or people with existing illnesses - to take precautions.
He urged those people to keep cool, drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun.
It was also important for people to check on their elderly neighbours or relatives, he said.
In the state's southwest, firefighters are continuing to work on containment lines at the Kentbruck blaze, which has burnt 11,964 hectares of national park, forest plantation and agricultural land.
The CFA is urging nearby communities to continue monitoring conditions.
In the state's east, there is an underground peat fire at Cabbage Tree-Conran Road near the Princes Highway in Cabbage Tree Creek.
A large grassfire that started at Little River, southwest of Melbourne, at 3.30pm (AEDT) was brought under control by 7.20pm thanks to the work of 40 CFA crews and four aircraft.
The fire had burned out 350 hectares of paddock before firefighters got on top of it.
The blaze had been creating spot fires about two to three kilometres ahead of it.
So far, the fires have not claimed any lives in the state but Victorian firefighter Peter Cramer, 61, died on Sunday in Taranna, east of Hobart.
He was one of more than 70 Victorian emergency services workers sent to Tasmania on Thursday to help fight the state's devastating fires.
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