A teenager has captured dramatic footage of her desperate attempts to save her family home in an isolated community in Victoria's Gippsland region.
India MacDonell chose to remain and defend her family's Goongerah property with her firefighter father Shaun when the call came to evacuate on Sunday.
The 19-year-old has no firefighting training and had never operated a fire hose before.
In the footage captured on her GoPro, India is seen wielding a handheld hose, shouting out "No, no, no, no!" as she runs towards a burning structure and begins hosing it down.
"The hose is burnt!" she calls out as she frantically works to put out the fire, which is licking its way up the wooden beams.
A moment later, she exclaims "I can't breath through my mouth" before locating a face mask and putting it on.
The father and daughter duo's efforts paid off, as they managed to save their house and shed, but the tiny hamlet of less than 60 residents remains completely cut off.
India told 9News they have no electricity or phone reception as telephone lines are down and the family are using a generator to provide light and WiFi – the only thing connecting them to the outside world.
"It's looks (sic) like the end of the world up here," India wrote in a post on Facebook.
"Now that the fires have passed Goongerah and we're not under attack, we are now dealing with a sense of being trapped."
"The whole town is a complete mess, so so sooo much is burnt and every few minutes you can her more and more trees falling in the distance, it's very loud and haunting.
Fallen trees have cut off road access to the township and it's not known when access will be restored.
Around 45 fires continue to burn across Victoria today and 17 people remain unaccounted for.
