Fire Watchers | U.S. Citizens Defense Corps

Identifying device

Flame. Letters Patent: D-129807.

A red flame emblem symbol with a blue circle, white triangle, and red flame in the center.

Duties

  • watching for the fall of incendiary devices

  • extinguishing incendiary bombs

Open to

Positions were available for men and women.

Fire Watcher Photos

Period photographs of Civilian Defense fire watchers

A man in a suit wearing a helmet speaking on a phone, standing near a window, with an air raid warden armband on his arm.
A young man posing as a civilian defense fire watcher, holding a flashlight and wearing a helmet, standing in front of a wooden door in a room.