{"id":648978,"date":"2025-01-13T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-duty-was-downloaded-2-million-times-during-this-weeks-la-fires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:55:12","slug":"watch-duty-was-downloaded-2-million-times-during-this-weeks-la-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-duty-was-downloaded-2-million-times-during-this-weeks-la-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watch Duty was downloaded 2 million times during this week\u2019s LA fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire-tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing wildfires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As TechCrunch\u2019s Maxwell Zeff explained, the app relies on a network of active and retired firefighters, first responders, official government reports, and volunteer reporters who monitor radio scanners to offer real-time updates on active wildfires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During this week\u2019s fires, where the official alerts were could be buggy or inaccurate, Watch Duty climbed to the top of Apple\u2019s App Store charts. And in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/11\/us\/watch-duty-wildfire-app.html\">an interview Saturday with The New York Times<\/a>, CEO John Mills said the app had been downloaded 2 million times since Tuesday and seen 14 million unique users this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mills said that the app is operated by a nonprofit funded primarily by donations, with 15 full-time employees and 200 employees. He insisted that Watch Duty collects very little personal data about users and that he has no intention of selling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI owe it to my community to not be a disaster capitalist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/12\/watch-duty-was-downloaded-2-million-times-during-this-weeks-la-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire-tracking app Watch Duty has become a crucial source of information for Los Angeles residents threatened by the ongoing wildfires.\u00a0 As TechCrunch\u2019s Maxwell Zeff explained, the app relies on a network of active and retired firefighters, first responders, official government reports, and volunteer reporters who monitor radio scanners to offer real-time updates on active wildfires&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/watch-duty.jpg?w=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5055,70917,151454,153561],"class_list":["post-648978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-startups","tag-tc","tag-watch-duty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}