Watch Duty proved indispensable during the recent LA wildfires. John Mills, the app’s creator, wants it to be the one place ...

Watch Duty became a critical app amid the Los Angeles wildfires which have burned 35,000+ acres. The app saw 2.5 million downloads in the past two weeks, CEO John Mills told BI. Mills said he has ...

Last fall, a relatively unknown app called Watch Duty beat out Open AI, TikTok and Instagram to become the most downloaded iPhone app in the country. But Watch Duty wasn’t a venture-backed startup.

Fire-tracking app Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing wildfires. As TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff explained, the app relies on a ...

Since the Palisades Fire broke out on the morning of Jan. 7, several more wildfires have ravaged the Los Angeles area. At least 27 people have died and more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed.

Santa Rosa-based Watch Duty wildfire tracking app has about 16 million active users. Santa Rosa-based Watch Duty wildfire tracking app has about 16 million active users, more than half whom have ...

Watch Duty, an app designed to alert citizens of nearby wildfires has reached over two million users as fires burned in Los Angeles over the past week. John Mills, the founder and CEO of Watch ...

The app, Watch Duty, provides timely updates of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires, among others that burned — and continue to burn — in the Los Angeles region. Residents and first responders ...

Instead, L.A. residents flocked to Watch Duty, an app which shows real-time updates and alerts for wildfires in 21 states. In the first days of the fires, Watch Duty shot to the No. 1 spot in ...