Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelical Association have boots on the ground in Australia while the country battles massive wildfires.

Frank King, with the groups, says Samaritan's Purse has nine staff and volunteers in the country while the Billy Graham Association has three crisis trained chaplins.

"On the Samaritan's Purse side our volunteers help clean up fire damaged properties, we also do a lot of the work of sifting through the rubble and ash of destroyed homes and buildings to look for valuables, keepsakes, heirlooms, anything that might have survived the fire," King says. "This is of a great benefit to families, if they find anything at all, it can be just a great benefit to them emotionally and spiritually."

He says while they're doing that the members from the Billy Graham Association are there to offer a prayer or a shoulder to cry on, whatever is appropriate.

"Our staff and volunteers are trained for this and they got a lot of wildfire experience working with the Fort Mac fires in 2016, so they're trained to just come alongside and work with the officials that are already there, to offer their services and then when they and chapins go out, all of this is offered to these homeowners free of any kind of charge or any sort."

King says it can make a tremendous difference to the people they help to know that there are people who have come a long way to help them out.

He says they can always use prayers for the work they're doing and for the those directly impacted.

And if you'd like to help financially go to samaritanspurse.ca or billygraham.ca.