Police will prepare a report for the coroner following a fatal shed fire in Ferntree Gully.
Emergency services were called to Station Street following reports of an explosion just before 4.45pm on Friday 11 January.
Firefighters found a yet to be identified man and a dog dead inside the shed after extinguishing the fire.
No one else was injured as a result of the incident.
At this stage the fire is not being treated as suspicious.