Rain and cooler weather helped to put a stop to the fires in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, and in their direction, the future of optimism began to dawn again.

- It's something strange that rolls down from the sky. Rain! says Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill to ABC News.

- We are not out of the tunnel yet, but I feel happier than in a long time.

Then, on Saturday morning, 136 fires were going on in New South Wales, and just over 20 in Victoria. But only two of them were classified as emergency.

Megabrand ravages

The rescue work was focused on Saturday mainly on infrastructure reconstruction - and on the mega-fire that rages in the Victoria and New South Wales border areas.

That fire is between 600,000 and 700,000 hectares, and is being fought by 2,600 firefighters in New South Wales alone, according to RFS Fire Chief Shane Fitzsimmons.

However, he could easily have found for ABC Radio that not a single house was destroyed in the fire on Friday and Saturday.

"Long way to go"

Fitzsimmons colleague in Victoria, Andrew Crisp, also exhaled, but raised a warning finger.

-The longer forecast is for warmer and drier weather, so we know we have a long way to go. It is nice to get some breathing space now, so that we can regroup and see what we can do for the communities, but we will get warmer weather again, ”he said at a press conference.