Roads reopen in Grampians after fire threat eases The Victorian bushfire emergency, in which four homes were razed, is finally over according to experts. THE woman who died in Friday's Grampians fires was a 78-year-old who had no known living relatives. Authorities had difficulties locating a next of kin, with a friend identifying her body. The exact cause of her death is unknown. It is understood the woman, whose name has not been released, lived alone in the Roses Gap property after her husband died. Firefighters at work in the Grampians. She did not have any children. Meanwhile, Victoria's fire chief says Halls Gap dodged a bullet when a wind change spared the town from fire. "Halls Gap dodged a bullet," Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said, referring to the change. Crews rest at the Stawell staging ground. Picture: Jay Town The main fire front came within 4km of Halls Gap, although a number of spot fires were closer. Halls Gap is the first time an evacuation order has been used since the evacuation policy came in after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. A small number of homeowners elected to stay, with fire trucks also in the town Fresh crews arrive in Stawell. Mr Lapsley's comments come after the fire threat for the Grampians eased and major roads into the area began reopening. Ten homes were destroyed and a woman died since fires started in Victoria's east on Wednesday. The biggest threat last night was the Black Range fire moving towards Stawell, which had jumped containment lines. And while it that fire not under control this morning, a CFA alert released just after 6.30am confirmed that while smoke would linger, it posed no threat to Stawell residents. "There is still a significant amount of work to do in establishing control lines and blacking out in some difficult terrain," CFA Incident Controller Andrew Morrow said. Mr Morrow said all parts of the Grampians North Complex fire had subsided and were no longer threatening properties in the Halls Gap, Dadswells Bridge and Wartook area. But with bushfire still not under control, back burning would to continue at the southern end of the Mount Difficult Range near Halls Gap until at least Tuesday. "Back burning progressed well overnight and we're hoping to take advantage of more favourable weather conditions over the next few days to complete these works," Mr Morrow said. We also need to move into the recovery stage so that the wider Grampians area can get back to operating as usual. Halls Gap and Dadswells' Bridge will today reopen to the public, while the Grampians National Park will stay closed until noon on Monday. The Western Highway from Ballarat to Horsham is open, but some roads in the surrounding area remain closed. A relief centre in Stawell is still open, but the Horsham relief centre has now closed. Mount Zero Olives owner Neil Seymour said the fire had been through their 2000 acre olive grove in Laharum, between Halls Gap and Horsham, but it had not destroyed any property. Things are looking really great now. We're very happy about it," Mr Seymour said. We were very, very excited about how our efforts managed to protect our farm and house. We've had some of the trees singed and a bit burnt, but not very many of them. All our infrastructure stuff is totally safe. Mr Seymour and wife Jane evacuated at nights and returned in the morning, during which they would watch waterbombing helicopters dumping water loads on the nearby popular rock climbing spot Summerday Valley, which was subsequently burnt out. "At certain times it was pretty nerve racking, but most of the time it was just extremely interesting and hot," he said. We've been cleaning up all the mess we made distributing containers of water, all our equipment was scattered around the place at tanks.