Flames have blackened an area the size of Guatemala, destroyed some 2,000 homes and killed at least 28 people in one of the worst wildfire seasons in Australian history. More than 200 blazes are still burning, many of them completely uncontrolled.

On Saturday, Victoria’s Forest Fire Management confirmed on Twitter that one of its firefighters had died while working on a bushfire near Omeo. On Friday, two of the biggest infernos merged into what officials called a “mega-fire,” straddling the country’s two hardest-hit and most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria.

Steady winds continue to drive the flames, but the record-breaking heat that made conditions worse last month and into the new year has abated, and the possibility of at least a little rain next week entered the forecast.