Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...

Earlier this month on January 4, Amazon MGM Studios and Vanity Fair hosted an event to celebrate the start of Golden Globes ...

Wildfire experts and politicians must focus on saving lives and neighborhoods from future fires, and rebuild in a fire-safe ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad ...

Los Angeles lawyers Gina Zapanta and Michael Alder are providing emergency housing and supplies to over 100 wildfire evacuees. The couple's efforts began with offering 10 hotel rooms but quickly ...

Both women have been with Watch Duty since its early days in 2020. But both were involved in fire safety well before the app launch, having been motivated by a shortage of information about wildfires ...

On Wednesday, a wildfire broke out in McDowell County in Western North Carolina after a tree fell onto a powerline.

Watch Duty’s success raises questions about why citizen-led tech is outpacing government emergency response efforts. The company’s co-founder explores the lessons agencies can learn from this ...

The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles are far from extinguished, but the blame game is already raging. Apocalyptic images of entire communities returned to ash have been interspliced with a steady ...

A congressional subcommittee will hold a hearing addressing overregulation in California following the devastating Los ...

On a computer in his bedroom, Aadi Sobti developed Fire Watch, an app designed to help users prepare for a wildfire and know ...