Watch Duty CEO John Mills said his app, which has provided updates during the LA wildfires, is powered by volunteers who want to do "social good." ...

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.

For nearly 10 million Watch Duty users the free application’s alert — a gentle hum followed by an echoing — is both a ...

Watch Duty was created in 2021 by John Mills, the founder and CEO, who was inspired to build an app after experiencing frightening wildfires in 2019 and 2020 near his home in Sonoma County, California ...

The Walbridge Fire in Sonoma alone burned more than 55,000 acres. "The Walbridge Fire was the ultimate one that really got me to do something about this, and that was the one that ended about a ...

When Mills’ Sonoma County home was at risk during the Walbridge fire in 2020, he realized there wasn’t a place to go to get information about the emergency. Mills and friend David Merritt then ...

It's been years and years in the making. If you look back in time before Watch Duty existed, when I went through my first fire in 2020, the Walbridge Fire, you end up having 15 browser tabs open ...