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title: 'Forest Fires Cause Floods: Help prevent disasters'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/forest-fires-cause-floods-help-prevent-disasters-1945/
description: 'Night landscape poster: burning ridges glow above a river that has flooded a farmhouse and trees, with a red cross symbol in the lower left'
section: Collection
---

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# Forest Fires Cause Floods: Help prevent disasters

Night landscape poster: burning ridges glow above a river that has flooded a farmhouse and trees, with a red cross symbol in the lower left and the headline 'Forest Fires Cause Floods'. The tell is the paired images of fire and flood as one chain of disaster, with the Red Cross emblem placed in the scene.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FOREST FIRES cause FLOODS
HELP PREVENT DISASTERS
[signature:] glenn grohe
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
State
Forest Service
[imprint:] ☆U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—667492
```

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