As devastating fires continue to rage in the Southern California area, an app that tracks wildfires with live maps and alerts has become the No. 1 free app in Apple’s App Store. Watch Duty, launched ...

During January’s unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles, Watch Duty—a digital platform providing real-time fire data—became the go-to app for tracking the unfolding disaster and is credited with ...

Santa Rosa-based Watch Duty wildfire tracking app has about 16 million active users, more than half whom have downloaded the app since the start of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. The app is ...

The Watch Duty app, which is expanding to cover Hawai‘i, offers real-time updates and information about wildfires. This screenshot shows a number of wildfires burning in California on Thursday, Nov. 7 ...