A person keeping watch for fires, especially forest fires or those caused by bombs.
火灾（尤指森林火灾或空袭引起的火灾）警戒员
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A fire-watcher during the Second World War bombing of Hull, he is said to have been bombed out nine times.
Failing to notice the brutal dictatorship under which the daughters of educated men lived, she became a fire-watcher by night during the Blitz and a mechanic constructing tank engines by day.
He plays a crucial health and safety role as a fire watcher.
An additional fire watcher may be required to observe areas that are hidden from the view of a single fire watcher.
A fire watcher with suitable fore fighting equipment should being attendance at all times.
Derivatives
fire-watching
noun
In the UK about 500 of the 6,500 conscientious objectors imprisoned between 1940 and 1945 were women who had refused conscription or compulsory fire-watching duties.
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Although some street fire watching parties were formed spontaneously, understandably many people did not want to simply sit and wait for incendiaries, particularly night after night.
In 1939 the library was used as a fire-watching station.
Thankfully we didn't see many fires when I was fire watching, but you did see enough to feel that what you where doing was important.