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

For nearly 10 million Watch Duty users the free application’s alert — a gentle hum followed by an echoing — is both a ...

What we’ve discovered through years of studies and user interviews is that, in an emergency, information fatigue never occurs. In crises, more information is always better than less. Withholding ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Santa Rosa-based app Watch Duty became an indispensable tool during Los Angeles' wildfires Watch Duty, founded in 2021, when it had about 6,000 North Bay users, now has 16 million active users ...

At the end of 2024, Watch Duty had nearly three million app users. Since the Los Angeles area fires broke out, that number has almost doubled. Software engineer and entrepreneur John Mills co ...

‘Watch Duty’ co-founder John Mills became an Unsung Hero Award recipient on Friday after his emergency alert app helped thousands of Southern California residents stay safe and navigate the ...

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 ...

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.