Watch Duty
Summary
A highly-recommended app for realtime tracking of urban and wild fires.
Watch Duty is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-government organization focused on disseminating public safety information in real-time from verified sources. Their service is powered by real people—active and retired firefighters, dispatchers, and first responders (not crowdsourced)—who diligently monitor radio scanners and collaborate around the clock to bring you up-to-the-minute life saving information.
Their mission is to publish only the facts that provide true situational awareness in case of emergency, without editorialization or prediction. They honor integrity and correctness over speed or sensationalism so they can build and maintain trust with the community and first responders.
Watch Duty is an essential resource for those living in the PG& service area, where an antiquated and poorly maintained infrastructure too often triggers deadly fires and emergency service outages due to wind gusts that would not warrant a comment in better-served regions.
