Watch Duty was created in 2021 by John Mills, the founder and CEO, who was inspired to build an app after experiencing frightening wildfires in 2019 and 2020 near his home in Sonoma County, California ...

Fire-tracking app Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing ...

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the number one free app in Apple’s App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for ...

Watch Duty’ co-founder John Mills became an Unsung Hero Award recipient on Friday after his emergency alert app helped ...

The Watch Duty app's fire fact-checkers brought reliable information to Los Angeles residents during a week of chaos.

I meet people in the grocery store and they’ll fucking cry in my arms,” Watch Duty CEO and co-founder John Clarke Mills tells ...

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

The Watch Duty app stemmed from frustration and anger over the lack of centralized and reliable information provided by the government during wildfire emergencies.

Watch Duty, a nonprofit-run app that tracks wildfires with live maps and alerts, has shot to the top of Apple’s App Store charts this week as Californian residents look to navigate catastrophic blazes ...

The Watch Duty app skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s App Store after more than half a million people downloaded it since the fires began Tuesday afternoon. The app debuted back in 2021 ...

Watch Duty was created in 2021 by a California resident who experienced the stress of wildfire evacuations firsthand. The app provides users with real-time fire perimeters, evacuation orders ...