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The fire storm tore through several small towns north of Melbourne Saturday night destroying everything in its path. One family was forced to dive into a farm reservoir to survive while others took refuge in a community shed with firefighters standing between them and a wall of flames. A badly burned man in the town of Kinglake, where there were many fatalities, was kept alive for six hours by being partially submerged by friends in a pool until help arrived. "It rained fire," said one survivor, showing his singed shirt. "We hid in the olive grove and watched our house burn." Sunday, the remains of charred cars littered the smoldering towns, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Melbourne. Some vehicles had crashed into each other as their drivers frantically tried to escape the fire. "Out there it has been hell on earth," Victoria state Premier John Brumby said in a television address. Police said the toll could continue to rise as they search the ruins of the wild fires and with 20 people with serious burns in hospital. Thousands of firefighters were still battling dozens of fires in Victoria and New South Wales state Sunday night. "We will find more bodies as we gain access to different parts of the fire areas," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon told a news conference. "We have found people in cars, it looks like they have decided late to leave their premises. We have found people who have been in properties, in their paddocks. We've found others in their houses. And the sad part is that we found children." Nixon said some of the fires may have been deliberately lit. The previous worst bushfire tragedy was in 1983 when 75 people were killed in the "Ash Wednesday" fires. Survivors said the Victorian inferno reached four storeys high and raced across the land like speeding trains. "It went through like a bullet," Darren Webb-Johnson, a resident of the small rural town of Kinglake, told Sky TV. TOWNS DESTROYED "Hell and its fury have visited the good people of Victoria," said Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who announced a A$10 million (6.7 million U.S. dollars) aid package. "The nation grieves with Victoria. Many good people now lie dead. Many others lie injured," said Rudd. The army has been put on standby. Continued... 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