Mim Hope, owner of French Island Glamping, said she could see the fire build quickly from her property about five kilometres away. "It's really quite smoky now," she said on Saturday afternoon.

Victorian authorities have issued an emergency warning for an out-of-control fire burning on French Island in Western Port Bay. The blaze is travelling from the Ridge Track in an easterly ...

It comes as a blaze on French Island, that has consumed consuming 76 hectares in Victoria’s south, is still out of control – but firefighters have halted the spread.