Protect your family from fires
Housing safety poster: a large red flame fills the left side, and inside it a woman with wide eyes and open mouth raises both hands. A bulleted list of fire hazards is headed Tell the management, with a blank box to write the fire department number. The frightened face carries the fear-appeal, and the list gives the specific action.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National Housing Agency, Federal Public Housing Authority
- 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)
National Housing Agency, Federal Public Housing Authority. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1589 (NAID 515254).
Text on the object
PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM FIRES NEVER LEAVE SMALL CHILDREN ALONE AT HOME! TELL THE MANAGEMENT IF- heater or stove doesn't burn right fuel leaks flues are not tight you don't know how to operate your heater or stove electric wiring is faulty fuses "blow" you don't know how to use your fire extinguisher IN CASE OF FIRE-PHONE . . . [blank box for a telephone number] NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-610517] SAFETY POSTER No. 3
