Surrounded by fire on multiple fronts, a Queensland property is under threat; smoke stretches through the air for kilometres, and fire snakes wildly over the ground.
All across Queensland, exhausted fire fighters face an inferno day and night - and right now, with temperatures peaking, weather conditions couldn't be worse.
"We'll see our maximum forest fire danger index, which will see winds pick up, temperature increase and humidity drop down," Steve Smith from Queensland Fire and Rescue explains.
With more than 100 fires still burning, Queensland's emergency stretches on.
It's been a week since residents fled their homes in Deepwater - and the first look inside reveals why.
The fire zone resembles a warzone, with scorched trees and blackened earth. Further north, at Eungella, whole hillsides are missing.
More than 500,000 hectares have burned, and only a constant aerial effort has kept the fire from people's homes.
Small water-bombing aircraft take off from cane fields, but it takes a runway for the jewel of the fleet - the 737 Coulson Firetanker, which drop tens of thousands of litres each time.
"Very rewarding, very fulfilling," Malcolm Gray, the Rockhampton Airbase manager says of the work he's doing.
"I feel very sorry that we've got to be here because of the circumstances, but we're trying our best to alleviate that."
With thunderstorms on the horizon, putting an end to the bushfire crisis is going to take more help from above.
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