Many of the weekly country newspapers were published on Fridays. Consequently, on Friday the 13th, reporters and editors of The Healesville Guardian and The Colac Herald, found themselves describing a crisis literally exploding around them.

Many of the newspapers published on that day curled in the heat before they were read. Select from the list of regional newspapers below.

06/01/39 | The Holidays
06/01/39 | Jamieson
13/01/39 | Ten Mile
13/01/39 | Merton
20/01/39 | Victoria's blackest day
20/01/39 | Tenmile and Woodspoint Razed
27/01/39 | An asinine policy?
24/02/39 | Royal Commission Visits This District
24/02/39 | Commission Sits at Woodspoint
03/03/39 | Merton

13/01/39 | Disastrous Bush Fires
13/01/39 | Rubicon Inferno
27/01/39 | An asinine policy?
27/01/39 | Forest Policy Criticised
10/02/39 | Royal Commission at Toolangi

21/08/36 | Wedding
14/01/38 | Fires
11/02/38 | Fires
11/02/38 | Portents of hot weather and danger
11/02/38 | Bush Fire
25/11/38 | Erica Saved
23/12/38 | Bush Fire Menace
30/12/38 | Walhalla – Hospital Sports
30/12/38 | Hill End
13/01/39 | Forestry Officer Loses Life
13/01/39 | Walhalla
13/01/39 | Walhalla
13/01/39 | Rubicon fires
13/01/39 | Refugees Brought To Moe
13/01/39 | Lightning Ignites Tree
13/01/39 | Hill End
20/01/39 | Walhalla
20/01/39 | Fires, Destruction, Tragedy
20/01/39 | Tanjil Bren Disaster
20/01/39 | Splendid Gifts
20/01/39 | Funeral at Moe
28/02/39 | Bush Fires Enquiry
03/03/39 | Walhalla

07/01/39 | Healesville’s Holiday Visitors
14/01/39 | Amazing escape
14/01/39 | Postmistress stays at post
14/01/39 | On Acheron Way
14/01/39 | Healesville Sanctuary
14/01/39 | [Advertisement]
14/01/39 | Exodus of Visitors
21/01/39 | Death and Desolation at Matlock
21/01/39 | The Escape from Richards’ Mill
21/01/39 | Marysville Attractions Unharmed
28/01/39 | Aftermath of the Fires

16/01/39 | Editorial
16/01/39 | Colac District’s Fearful Tragedy
18/01/39 | Bush Fires – Relief Fund Almost £80,000