Watch Duty CEO John Mills said his app, which has provided updates during the LA wildfires, is powered by volunteers who want ...

A nonprofit runs the app with volunteers and full-time employees, including retired firefighters and dispatchers, to provide ...

Ever since the deadly wildfires began in Los Angeles two weeks ago, residents have largely turned to one app for the most up-to-date information. It’s called Watch Duty and Stephanie Sy spoke to two ...

If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably already intimately familiar with Watch Duty, the free app that shows active ...

Watch Duty, founded in 2021, when it had about 6,000 North Bay users, now has 16 million active users, more than half of whom ...

Volunteers help source information to the service, which gives updates on wildfires and sends out alerts on threats to life ...

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

The service uses information gathered from first responders, radio scanners, wildfire cameras, and satellites to deliver up-to-date information on wildfires. Watch Duty was created in 2021 by a ...

Watch Duty, an app designed to alert citizens of nearby wildfires has reached over two million users as the fires in LA ...

The app saw a surge in users this week with nearly 2 million downloads from Los Angeles area residents, nearly doubling its ...

As multiple wildfires erupted across Southern California, scorching more than 40,000 acres and destroying over 12,000 ...