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

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

In the first days of the fires, Watch Duty shot to the No. 1 spot in Apple's app store seemingly overnight. It provides users easy-to-read maps showing burn areas, evacuation zones, fire cameras ...

Last fall, a relatively unknown app called Watch Duty beat out Open ... they don’t always include maps, so people are left to guess the exact location of the fire and the direction it’s ...

Just weeks into the new year in California, 300-plus wildfires have left a trail of devastation and at least 29 lives lost. The devastation raises a question about emergency response: Why didn’t ...

Watch Duty, an app designed to alert citizens ... official sources and radio communications, including the map which comes from fire sources. “We are very diligent about putting out safe ...

Watch Duty, founded in 2021 ... some gleaned from their own internal dispatches, with fire maps, photos, live video from fire lookout cameras, notices of evacuation orders and weather warnings ...

It’s called Watch Duty and Stephanie ... The free app has interactive maps allowing users to track evacuation zones, shelter locations, live camera feeds and fire perimeters, as well as ...

‘Watch Duty’ co-founder John ... actions during the Palisades Fire after videos showing the actor helping firefighters move abandoned cars went viral online. “Anyone can be a hero, that ...