Yeah pretty much. The CFA (Country Fire Authority) is doing a stellar job controlling the fires in my area. The ones you saw are the ones threatening Melbourne suburbs, they're some of the nastiest. Though, 2 days ago, fires near us spread to a coal mine and blew up a substation cutting power to our entire region. The fire there is expected to burn for weeks and seriously impact the state's power supply so that'll be fun what with everyone running their Air-con 24/7.
Fortunately, even though my area is covered in a blanket of thick smoke, it's from backburning not out of control fires so we're not in any danger... For now!