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Simon
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Bay Area Googler | Watch Duty🔥 Contributor | Norwich City (NCFC) 💛💚 | Fantasy Football Nerd 🤓
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Every time a Watch Duty alert goes out, there are real people on the other side:
"It empowers people to make decisions"
"It's not a tech platform, it's a people platform"
"This is accessible to EVERYBODY"
Thank you, Watch Duty community. Your support allow us to be a lifeline for millions of people.
December 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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What is a Watch Duty 'reporter'? It's the real humans immersing themselves in every possible source to understand how a fire is evolving. Our team is made up of active and retired wildland firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and reporters, digesting everything...
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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millions of dollars from @google or passionate users donating $5. Now through the end of the year, those donations are going even further - all donations up to $100,000 will be DOUBLED. Thank you for keeping critical information where it should be - free and accessible to all. watchduty.org/donate
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December 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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“We’re transforming how disaster information is shared by putting people first, not profit. Expanding Watch Duty nationwide ensures no one faces disaster in the dark” - John Mills, Co-Founder & CEO

Watch Duty is a nonprofit organization. We’re supported by donors both big and small whether it’s...
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ICYMI Watch Duty is expanding to all 50 U.S. states to make sure that every community has access to verified, real-time wildfire information.

In the past four years, we’ve gone from supporting a few counties in California, to millions of users across 22 states, to now the entirety of the U.S. (1/2)
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's amazing to see how much Air Attack is working on the #HughesFire right now.
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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If you want a helpful app to follow the location of fires in your area, the Watch Duty app is a good one.
January 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Serious situation already w/#TemescalFire, which started above #PacificPalisades is now moving through populated wildland-urban interface. This is an extremely fast-moving wind-driven fire, with long-range spotting ongoing. Watch Duty link: #CAwx #CAfire app.watchduty.org/i/...
January 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Has anyone figured out a way to get notifications when a certain account posts on BlueSky? I use this feature a lot on Twitter and I'd love to use it here. But so far, I've not been able to find it.
December 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
This feels like the early days of Twitter. Excited for a new platform without the politics.
November 17, 2024 at 4:17 AM