RAIN has fallen in Victoria's Gippsland region helping contain a bushfire that destroyed 29 homes.
The Delburn complex fire remains nearly 6,400 hectares in size but the number of firefighters in the region has been reduced.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) says the fire, resulting from a number of blazes converging, has eased.
Firefighters are hopeful of having it fully contained by late today.
Many firefighters brought into the region on Sunday night from Victoria's northeast have not had to fight any fires this morning.
East of the Delburn complex fire, near the township of Licola, a group of fires that had been burning out of control have been put out without loss of property or life.
Gallery: Gippsland bushfires
Only one small fire, north of Yackandandah, remains uncontrolled.
"There has been a lot of new fires start because there has been so much lightning. All but one of them has been brought under control already," Luke Brown from the DSE says.
"At the end of the week we are going to return to shocking conditions, on Thursday, Friday and in particular Saturday are going to be stinking hot."
While there is no total fire ban in Victoria on Monday, fire conditions remain extreme, particularly north of the Great Dividing Range, where most centres are expecting top temperatures in the high 30s to low 40s.
Many Gippsland residents made emotional visits to their properties to inspect the damage on Monday.
The next step for residents around the town of Boolarra, in Victoria's east, is to rebuild homes that were destroyed or damaged.
Boolarra Development Committee chairman Robert Herni says the town will be heavily dependent on financial assistance.
"This community is pretty resilient and tough," Mr Herni says.
"It won the Small Community Of The Year award in 2007-08 and that pride will help us bounce back."
