Ball of confusion

They think 200+ dead in the rampant Victorian bushfires so far. This so eclipses anything in the Euro records of Oz. I am a member of the Mammal Survey Group of Vic and one member is beside himself due to not only losing his house but nearly also nearly his life - he was saved by a road block - but what's really freaking him out is a suspected extinction event of all local wildlife('It looks like an atomic bomb's gone off'). He's pleading for help to rescue animals, if anything can be found, round the Hume Plateau forest system, Mt Disappointment state forest and Wallaby Creek water catchment area and further east. But authorities warn of crime scenes, road blocks, unidentified remains and electrical wires blowing, bushfires that might reappear as walls of flame out of nowhere, flames walking with ten league boots. Embers, trees can fall from the sky at any time. I'm calling him back Friday, as arranged. But by then ... ?