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

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

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

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 ...

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, 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 fire-tracking app surpassed the ChatGPT app for ...

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, 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 ...