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title: 'Loggers do prevent fires: Greater danger than ever'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/loggers-do-prevent-fires-1944/
description: 'Forest-fire prevention sheet for logging crews: tall conifers, felled logs and a tractor with a red-shirted driver.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Loggers do prevent fires: Greater danger than ever, 1944 US poster: Forest-fire prevention sheet for logging crews](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/loggers-do-prevent-fires-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/loggers-do-prevent-fires-1944.jpg)

# Loggers do prevent fires: Greater danger than ever

Forest-fire prevention sheet for logging crews: tall conifers, felled logs and a tractor with a red-shirted driver, under the headline 'Loggers do prevent fires' and a boxed list of six working rules. The only persuasive device is the closing line 'Greater Danger Than Ever'; the fear-appeal technique is faint here, and the sheet is mostly plain instruction.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
LOGGERS DO
PREVENT FIRES
1. By smoking only when and where specified,
and then extinguishing all matches, cigarette
butts, pipe heels.
2. By maintaining safe spark arresters on logging
engines, tractors, trucks.
3. By clearing inflammable debris from around
stationary logging engines and blocks.
4. By equipping gas or diesel engines, tractors,
trucks with fire extinguishers.
5. By keeping good fire tools handy in boxes,
except when being used on a fire.
6. By following safe practices always, and quickly
controlling any fire that starts.
"Greater Danger Than Ever"
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
State Forest Service
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—569072
[illegible] (small lettering on tractor)
```

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