The nonprofit organization, which has seen a drastic increase in users over the last week due to the L.A. fires, has a clear mission: “Watch Duty right now has one purpose, and that's life and safety.

Leading emergency information app Watch Duty uses Mapbox to provide critical up-to-date wildfire and emergency information to millions of users across 22 states. "We love Watch Duty's mission and are ...

“Download Watch Duty” has become a common refrain across online discussions centered around the recent wind-fueled firestorms in Los Angeles. Watch Duty is a free wildfire alert app and its mission of ...

For nearly 10 million Watch Duty users the free application’s alert — a gentle hum followed by an echoing — is both a frightening and comforting sound. It’s frightening because the sound alerts users ...