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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Tens of thousands of Californians are turning to a crowdsourced, nonprofit app called Watch Duty for critical, ...

Watch Duty, a nonprofit-run app that tracks wildfires with live maps and alerts, has shot to the top of Apple’s App Store ...

California's leadership has faced criticism for inaccurate information and ineffective measures during the fires in Los ...