Victorian firefighters will today farewell father of four Trevor Day, killed while battling a bushfire last week.
The Campbell's Creek Country Fire Authority captain will be escorted to his final resting place by an old Mercedes Benz truck - his favourite of the brigade's fleet.
More than 1,000 mourners are expected to attend Mr Day's funeral service, which will be held at the Campbell's Creek community centre, near Castlemaine in Central Victoria, at 2pm.
Firefighters will form a guard of honour in tribute to Mr Day, 42, who died on Tuesday when he was thrown from a truck while mopping up a blaze near Yea, north-east of Melbourne.
He is the first of three bushfire victims to be laid to rest.
Malcolm Wilson, 36, and his 12-year-old son Zeke died in the Grampians bushfires when their car was engulfed by flames at Moyston, in western Victoria.
The pair will be farewelled at a service in Stawell on Wednesday.
The funerals come as two blazes still burn out of control in the Grampians and Moondarra in Gippsland, in the state's East.
Rain and cooler temperatures have helped ease the intensity of the fires, which have been burning for more than a week.
But the wet has hampered backburning operations in the Grampians - the state's largest fire, which has so far burned about 129,000 hectares and destroyed at least 26 homes.
"We would be a lot happier if we had a better consolidated line around both of those fires," Department of Sustainability and Environment state fire coordinator John Lloyd told ABC Radio.
"But at this stage any locals should be able to return to their private property, anybody that has relocated themselves whilst we were under the extreme fire conditions."
The DSE hopes to today control the Gippsland fire which has burned about 15,000 ha.
The Grampians fire is expected to burn for several days.
"We would like another lot of warm weather to go across both of these incidents to ensure that our control lines will hold and then we'll consider listing the fires as under control," Mr Lloyd said.
A fire in the Brisbane Ranges, near Anakie, burned about 7,300 ha while another at Kinglake in Melbourne's north east, destroyed 1.600 hectares.
- AAP