Fire on the Limestone Plains/Bush Fires/The January 1939 Bushfires

In Victoria bush fires of 13 January 1939, known as the Black Friday bush fires,[41] saw almost two million hectares was burned, with 71 people losing their lives and whole townships destroyed. Both N.S.W. and the F.C.T. were also impacted by significant bush fires at this time. The Australian Alps National Parks produced a map in May 2006 as part of its Fire history of the Australian Alps – Prehistory to 2003 of the areas burnt in the bush fires of Black Friday 1938–1939.

Late Friday night (January 13) the fires reached the F.C.T. in three main tongues: one near Mt Franklin, one at Two Sticks Road (near Mount Coree) and the third near Horseshoe Bend along the northern boundary of the A.C.T.