Family members comfort each other after wildfires burned people in their homes and cars and wiped out entire towns

A fire truck drives past a destroyed church at Kinglake north east of Melbourne, Australia

Destroyed homes are seen in this image taken from television in Marysville, north of Melbourne

Flames and smoke rise from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, near Melbourne

Burnt out trees outside Kinglake that were destroyed by fire are viewed from this aerial shot