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 ...

Watch Duty was created in 2021 by John Mills, the founder and CEO, who was inspired to build an app after experiencing ...

The app monitors fire-related developments by listening to radio scanners, reviewing wildlife cameras and satellite data, and ...

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

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

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

Anne Makovec reports on the locally developed wildfire app Watch Duty that has been downloaded 1.5 million times since the ...

As of this writing, Watch Duty provides real-time updates on fires in nearly every state west of the Mississippi. The app is ...

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 ...

California Fire Foundation: California Professional Firefighters founded the nonprofit in 1987 to support families of fallen ...

At around noon on Friday, snow sets up out to the west and throughout the afternoon and early evening blankets all of ...

Apocalyptic scenes have emerged across Los Angeles County, where deadly wildfires remain mostly uncontained. Follow for live updates.