Fire Watch

Fire Watch may refer to:

  • Fire Watch (book), 1984 collection of short stories by Connie Willis
  • "Fire Watch" (short story), the title story in the Willis book
  • Fire watch, a British term for the work carried out by a fire lookout
  • A colloquialism for sentry duty in the United States Marine Corps

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or watch:

    “‘Tis the Last Judgment’s fire must cure this place,”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”
    —Kate Millett (b. 1934)