That's where we'll leave our live coverage for tonight, but we'll be back online early tomorrow morning. 

Emergency broadcasting will continue overnight on ABC Radio.

You can find your local frequency here, and for more information and a map of all the warnings, visit ABC Emergency.

There are four fires in Victoria still at an Emergency level warning:

• Longwood fire in central Victoria,
• Walwa fire in north-east Victoria
• Ravenswood South fire, south of Bendigo
• Alpine National Park fire, north-west of Bairnsdale

Information on those fires' changing conditions can be found at VicEmergency.

Thanks for being with us, and stay safe.

More than 60 fires ignited in Victoria on Friday with multiple blazes at Emergency level. 

Dozens of properties are feared lost and three people remain missing. The Longwood fire in central Victoria, the biggest in the state, has razed several homes.

To catch up on the key events, you can read our wrap of Friday's coverage below.

The State Control Centre (SCC) has released a message about the VicEmergency website occasionally not working.

"Earlier today some VicEmergency users on the website and app received a pop up message. The message read 'Error – Unable to load the latest warnings and incidents information'," the SCC says.

"This message can appear when website traffic is as busy as it was today. When the website is refreshed or automatically reloads, the website will load as usual."

The SCC says Victorians should not rely on just one source of information.

Some other sources include:

• Local emergency broadcasters such as ABC Local Radio, commercial and select community radio stations, or SkyNews TV
• Calling the VicEmergency Hotline on 1800 226 226
• Following VicEmergency on Facebook and X

The Longwood fire in central Victoria has changed direction and is now heading east after a wind change.

Multiple Emergency warnings are in place surrounding the fire and dozens of towns have been told to take shelter.

"The bushfire is travelling from Alexandra in a easterly direction," the warnings read.

"This fire is threatening homes and lives. 

"It is too late to leave the area safely so you must take shelter now."

For full details about these warnings, visit the VicEmergency website.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Ilana Cherny told ABC Radio some wind conditions were becoming more favourable as a south-westerly change sweeps across the state.

"For that Longwood and surrounds fire, we did see the south-westerly wind change move through about a couple hours ago," she said.

She said winds in the area had dropped to 20km/h, bringing cooler air with a south-westerly change. 

More broadly, she said the change is nearing Far East Gippsland and the NSW Border in the state's south.

But, she said "around another significant fire at Dargo, we're still looking at north-to north-easterly winds there".

In high country through Victoria's north, Ms Cherny said winds "are still pretty strong".

"We're likely to see the south-westerly change move through Wangaratta in the next hour or so."

She said the change will reach the Albury area at around 2am, ahead of "milder conditions" tomorrow.

"Although we could still see some quite brisk south-westerly wind and hence we are still looking at a high fire danger."

Residents near fire-affected areas are providing an early indication of the scale of destruction across Victoria.

"Our children are the sixth generation on the property and my father-in-law, who's never lived off the farm, has never seen devastation like this," Avenel resident Laura Jeffery told the ABC News Channel.

"They've lost almost everything on their property, which spans about 5,000 acres, except they've saved a few houses.

"The whole region is going to need a lot of support — not just financially, but to support the farmers that have lost the land they put their blood, sweat and tears into."

Avenel is one of the central Victorian towns affected by the Longwood bushfire, the largest blaze currently burning in the state.

 A fire has been burning in the Mt Lawson State Park since Monday, endangering town in Victoria's north-east border with NSW

Hot, harsh condition fed the blaze on Thursday, causing it to form smoke-fed thunderstorms above the area.

"The Walwa fire went pyroconvective. It created its own thunderstorm," said Country Fire Authority chief Jason Heffernan.

It has now burnt through 33,000 hectares of land, with major damage done to more than a 1,000 hectares of a pine plantation in the area.

An Emergency warning is currently in place for towns in the Tallangatta Valley area including Corryong, Tallangatta, Walwa and Burrowye.

Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledged earlier tonight on 9 News that properties had been lost in the Towong Shire Council where the fire is located.

Dozens of vehicles are working to battle the blaze, as well as a contingent of 90 firefighters from the NSW Rural Fire Service.

Authorities say over 100 more are expected to cross the border to assist on Saturday.

   A Country Fire Authority volunteer has told ABC Radio this evening that aging equipment has hampered efforts to save properties in Yarck, a small town in the upper Goulburn Valley region that's been impacted by the Longwood fire.

"If the truck hadn't broken down today, we could have saved the other house," Bob from Yarck said.

"If all the trucks were up to speed and everything else, nothing was going wrong, I think we'd be a lot better off."

Bob said it looked like "two or three" homes had been lost in the area.

The Emergency warning for the Ravenswood South fire has extended further east.

The grassfire, south of Bendigo, is travelling in an easterly direction from Ravenswood and is not yet under control.

It has crossed the Calder Highway and has burnt through Mount Alexander.

An Emergency warning has been issued to Elphinstone, Harcourt North, Metcalfe, Sedgwick and Sutton Grange.

People in these areas should leave immediately.

A "leave now" Watch and Act warning is in place for Axe Creek, Myrtle Creek, Pilchers Bridge, Sedgwick, Lyal and Redesdale.

"Don't wait — if you are not prepared to stay, leaving now is the safest option," the warning says. 

"Conditions may change and get worse very quickly."

Here's a little more detail on the current situation from the Country Fire Authority chief Jason Heffernan, who was interviewed on the ABC News Channel earlier.

"As many Victorians are probably aware right now, we do have widespread power outages," he said.

"That's leading to some of our telecommunications towers that have been running on battery back-up for quite some time starting to fail.

"In addition, many residents who have NBN and the like — who don't have a battery back-up or do have a battery back-up that has been running for quite a number of hours now — is also starting to fail.

"Tonight we are asking Victorians: if you are around any of the fires that are burning or you live in any of the impact zone maps that we have produced, we are asking you to make sure that you have access to a battery-powered radio to listen to your emergency broadcaster."

He reiterated that the state would soon experience "a couple of days of cooler, calmer-type weather", potentially allowing firefighters to access affected areas and assess the impact of the fires.