Watch Duty, Los Angeles

As winds continue to fan multiple fires across the Los Angeles region, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories are ...
The app is run by a nonprofit nominally based in Sonoma County, but is staffed by a dozen employees and hundreds of ...
If these volunteers, called reporters, believe there is “a threat to life or property,” the app will send an alert to people in that area. People who are affected will continue to receive ...
With the explosion of fires across the L.A. area, tracking app Watch Duty, which has 7.2 million active users annually, told ...
Watch Duty has added 750,000 users in the last 12 hours, as L.A. residents rely on it for real-time information to track the ...
Volunteers help source information to the service, which gives updates on wildfires and sends out alerts on threats to life ...
Adam Engst looks at Watch Duty, a nonprofit-developed app that combines wildfire mapping with real-time alerts from ...