Parks and Wildlife Service said:

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: We are aware of one former National Parks officer who volunteered for four days providing advice to the incident management team.

ISOBEL ROE: The statement went on to confirm that other former parks staff are volunteering to fight fires through the Rural Fire Service.

Gary Dunnett is the executive officer for the National Parks Association, a lobby group which aims to protect the state's vast network of conservation areas.

GARY DUNNETT: You know, it is about 35 square kilometres per officer. They're really thinly spread on the ground. Areas that really shouldn't be burned at all have gone up in flames.

ISOBEL ROE: Do you think that is something that management of the parks could have somehow prevented?

GARY DUNNETT: No,President Vladimir Putin has told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that Russia is ready to facilitate cooperation between North and South Korea, the Kremlin said on Sunday.

In a telephone call with Moon, Putin said Russia was ready to help with trilateral infrastructure and energy projects on the Korean peninsula.

On Friday Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un embraced after pledging to work for the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula."