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

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 ...

Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...

Instead, L.A. residents flocked to Watch Duty, an app which shows real ... data and verified by a team of fire fact-checkers. "Sending errant emergency alerts is a quick way to erode trust ...

Users can get alerts about fire activity and updates for fires ... Users can download Watch Duty as an app from your phone’s app store or go to its website, watchduty.org. You don’t need ...

Sensor Tower, a leading aggregator of mobile app download data ... satellites and official alerts from law enforcement and fire agencies. Watch Duty waits for confirmation from on-scene ...

Watch Duty, an app designed to alert citizens of nearby wildfires has ... “They have a lot of experience either on the fire ground or listening to fire service radios for a very long time ...

‘Watch Duty’ co-founder John Mills became an Unsung Hero Award recipient on Friday after his emergency alert app helped thousands ... during the Palisades Fire after videos showing the actor ...