fire watching

English Thesaurus

1. (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky (noun.act)

hypernym	:	civil defense,
definition	:	activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster (noun.act)

domain region	:	britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland,
definition	:	a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom (noun.location)