Get it refilled ... now
Company-sponsored fire-safety sheet: a worker's hand holds an inverted red extinguisher whose last liquid trickles onto a dark floor while smoke curls in the background. Headline 'Get it refilled' plus 'NOW' and a line to notify the fire department. The technique is fear-appeal, implying danger from an empty extinguisher.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bethlehem Steel Company
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- 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)
Bethlehem Steel Company. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-866 (NAID 514360).
Text on the object
Get it refilled ...NOW Notify your Fire Department [on extinguisher label, upside down: FIRE EXTINGUISHER / TURN BOTTOM UP / remaining label text illegible] [imprint: © BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY]
