DISASTER victim identification experts moved into the remote hilltop hamlet of Steels Creek today, discovering four more bodies to add to the grisly toll from Victoria's bushfires.

South of the "ground zero" zone of Kinglake, Steels Creek has lost at least 11 of its community of around 100 residents, as it bore the brunt of the bushfires that savaged the region on Saturday.

An advance team of police and Urban Search and Rescue officers went into yet another of the 550-plus homes destroyed by the Kinglake Complex inferno, before DVI teams began the delicate process of recovering and removing the bodies.

Two bodies were found inside the house and as one bodybag sat on the driveway, DVI experts were picking up scattered individual remains in small plastic bags.

Another pair of corpses was discovered at a property up the hill.

Detective Inspector Bob Sitlington (Sitlington) said recovering the bodies from the house was a painfully slow process because the ravaged homestead was in danger of collapsing and USAR teams needed to ensure it was safe to enter.

"Just look at the structure and the way it's been warped with the heat and how unsafe it is, the tilt on some of the walls, imagine that we have to do site safety assessments ... then work out how this structure can be searched," said Det Insp Sitlington, who worked in Thailand following the 2004 tsunami.

"When we clear a place, we want to make sure there are no deceased in that place.

"So you can see where the time delays come in. It's quite an exhaustive process.

"We're talking probably around 750-plus houses at the moment, this is one structure and there are many many of them scattered right throughout - from Wangaratta, down to Kinglake, all the way down to south of Traralgon and Callignee, so this is a really time-consuming process."

Every visible hillside and hilltop property in Steels Creek was destroyed as the area bore the brunt of the fire's fury, the steep gullies serving only to channel the flames even faster through the hamlet.

While individual fires continued to burn in the area on Wednesday, rescuers and recovery teams faced enough of a challenge even to reach every property to be searched because of massive charred tree trunks blocking minor roads and dirt tracks.

"Just to get up to some of these places ... it all has to be searched," Det Insp Sitlington said.

"Once that's done and we locate deceased people then the time is extended again as we go through the proper process to ensure that when we take people away from here, we can ensure that the people are identified to the extent of the coroner's satisfaction.

"That will ensure that when that body's released to the relatives, that the person is the person the coroner says it is.
"The last thing we want to do is put families through (the) trauma of incorrect identification."

AAP