fire beacon (to give alarm)

fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)

fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)

the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war

lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war

fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war