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

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 ...

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 ...

Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the No. 1 free app in Apple's App Store as of Wednesday morning. The ...

During this week’s fires, where the official alerts could be buggy or inaccurate, Watch Duty climbed to the top of Apple’s ...

Fire-tracking app Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing wildfires. As TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff explained, the app relies on a ...

Watch Duty last week zoomed to the top of Apple's App Store download charts, as it has several times in the past during other wildfire incidents. It remains in the top 10 there this week ...

Watch Duty shot to the top of the Apple App Store charts on Wednesday, racking up roughly half a million downloads in just a day as three brutal wildfires raged through Southern California ...

Watch Duty has soared to the number six spot in Apple's App Store listing, just below ChatGPT and ahead of Threads, Google, Instagram, Bluesky and TikTok. It's supported by donations, grants and $25 ...