John Clarke Mills, the man behind the wildfire alert app that kept millions of Angelenos informed, was presented an award by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Launched as a volunteer-sourced wildfire tracking app in Northern California, Watch Duty has integrated a wide range of data and expanded to more than 20 states. Chief Tech Officer David Merritt ...