Fire! Keep it away from our National Parks
An octagonal sheet with 'FIRE!' in flame-tipped red letters above a charred, burnt-out tree standing before a red sun, with the line 'Keep it away from our National Parks'. The fear-appeal is the scorched tree with arm-like branches and the flaming headline, presenting fire as a looming threat to the parks.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service; artist Charles J. Thorndike; engraved and printed by the U.S. Geological Survey
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-774 (NAID 514262).
Text on the object
FIRE! Keep it away FROM OUR NATIONAL PARKS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE [signature:] Charles J. Thorndike N.P.S. [imprint:] ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (on both pine-cone emblems)
