WW2 Redhill Scoop For Dealing With Incendiary Bombs

WW2 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Redhill scoop for dealing with German incendiary bombs. This long wooden-handled scoop was used for shovelling sand onto an ignited incendiary bomb to douse it or to poke incendiary devices off gutters and roofs. The scoop here has been painted black but were initially sold in bare metal. It sometimes also came with a rake/hoe that could allow burning fragments to be collected in the scoop and then put in a fire bucket of sand. See the cigarette cards below that show how this was intended to be used.

Incendiary Bomb Cooling Down - Ogden's Cigarette Card

Control of Incendiary Bomb - Ogden's Cigarette Card

Removal of Incendiary Bomb with Scoop and Hoe - Ogden's Cigarette Card

extinction of Incendiary Bomb - Ogden's Cigarette Card