[4] During a 1940 air raid on West Bromwich, she helped her father to put out an incendiary bomb that had lodged in the roof of a shop.

[3][4] Nonetheless, she then used a borrowed bicycle and made numerous attempts to deliver a message to the control room, one and a quarter miles away, avoiding bombs and shrapnel.

At the outset when incendiary bombs began to fall she assisted her father, a Post Warden, to put out one of these, in the roof of a shop, with the aid of a stirrup pump and bucket of water.

The pump proved to be out of order, but nothing daunted she proceeded to splash the water with her hands and eventually put out the fire.

While endeavouring to get out of the roof the charred rafters gave way and she fell through to the room below and sustained minor injuries.Miss Bick and her father then returned to the A.R.P.

The Wardens attached to the Post were all on duty, so she borrowed a bicycle and rushed out to take a message to the Control Room amidst shrapnel from guns and falling bombs.