Required for Mountain Living
This app has been invaluable to us as we live in the Colorado mountains, and fires have become a regular part of our lives. Watch Duty gives us prompt notifications when a fire has started, clear details about where it’s headed from the wind map, where crews are in the process of fighting it, and when it’s time to go. It also allows us to notify our friends quickly when a fire pops up in their area and allows us to mobilize quickly to help them. Watch Duty gave us a notification this year that a wildfire (Stone Canyon Fire) had started less than a half of a mile from our home when we were out of town on vacation - and this allowed us to have enough time to mobilize our friends and community to get all 40 of our livestock, chickens, cats, dogs and valuables off our property within the hour. We’re very thankful for this app!! 🙏🏼❤️ Thank you!
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MY WILD FIRE WATCH GO TO - up to date & accurate
This ap is the best for wildfire warnings and status and includes things like status of fires, size, evacuation alerts, nearby human and animal shelter centers, fire department announcements and more for free. Paid versions include info on resources like planes, helicopters, wind direction, air quality, and much more. The free ap is sufficient to save lives. The ap is continuously updated and improved upon, always adding new features. I live in a rural area where wildfires are a constant threat. I don’t bother with anything else. There is no time to check a bunch of different apps or social media accounts when you are prepping to evacuate and are already stressed the heck out. All fire departments and CalFire should be giving public announcements about using the Watch Duty app to people who live in fire prone areas.
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Excellent App to get as up to date info as possible.
I heard about this app just recently during the Airport Fire and Line Fire. I have many friends with homes in both those areas. It was nice to be able to move from one fire to another so easily to get updates, see live video feed and have the transit/satalite/topography options as well as the satellite hot spots that really gives you a good idea of what is still active and what is not. I’m thankful for this app and I have shared it with my friends who were even more thankful to know their second homes in the Line Fire area were being protected as well as friends near Trabuco Canyon on both sides who were able to get an early idea of what directions the winds were blowing by the live video feed and whether there was a chance they would be in the evacuation zone long before they announced it. Everyone I know who were in the area are all safe as well as their homes. Thank you to all the hard working never stopping fire fighters and retardant/water droppers as well as everyone making the calls to protect homes in Orange County and San Bernardino County. My heart goes out to those who lost their homes more toward Riverside County and on the 74. I will never get rid of this app. So informative. I do wish the fire lines were updated a little more often if possible.
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Fantastic App
I used to have 5 or 6 apps that I monitored and switched between for wildfire info. TEDIOUS. I found Watch Duty three years ago and it cut that list down to two. After I check out the scanner function that was just added, I’m sure it will be just one.
Great idea, fantastic execution! The alerts make sure you don’t miss an event, and the updates are the fastest you’ll see in wildfire monitoring anywhere! I’ve listened to the scanner while waiting for updates and I’ve seen status updates on Watch Duty less than a minute behind a scanner update. Now that they’ve added the scanner and flight tracker update I will be able
to delete two more apps off my phone.
Watch Duty is of my favorite apps of all time. And the most solid app for wildfire season I’ve ever seen. It’s bug free, it’s intuitive, it’s flipping FAST at getting info out. My only complaint, and I cannot stress how minor this is, I wish the app wasn’t quite so expensive, just so it was easier to justify to the wife. I live in fire country and I am positive this app will save my life and the lives of my family someday, that makes it priceless.
Oh, more layer options and a dark mode would be dope but we all know that’s me being picky. This app could exist as it was 3 years ago and it would still be number one on my lineup.
Great idea, fantastic execution! The alerts make sure you don’t miss an event, and the updates are the fastest you’ll see in wildfire monitoring anywhere! I’ve listened to the scanner while waiting for updates and I’ve seen status updates on Watch Duty less than a minute behind a scanner update. Now that they’ve added the scanner and flight tracker update I will be able
to delete two more apps off my phone.
Watch Duty is of my favorite apps of all time. And the most solid app for wildfire season I’ve ever seen. It’s bug free, it’s intuitive, it’s flipping FAST at getting info out. My only complaint, and I cannot stress how minor this is, I wish the app wasn’t quite so expensive, just so it was easier to justify to the wife. I live in fire country and I am positive this app will save my life and the lives of my family someday, that makes it priceless.
Oh, more layer options and a dark mode would be dope but we all know that’s me being picky. This app could exist as it was 3 years ago and it would still be number one on my lineup.
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The best
This is the best fire alert app for the western US. As a resident in a place that has regular fires, I’m always on the hunt for good intel when something is happening. The fire watch app has consistently been the first alert I’ve received for fires in my county this fire season. The updates have been phenomenal. The people that staff it and the radio updates they capture could not be more timely. It’s helped my family stay safe, including when my sister had to evacuate due to a quickly moving fire a month ago. I knew about it before she did, and quickly sent her a heads up and a link to the fire alerts on fire watch.
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Faster than most agencies, and an incredible piece of mind
I live in a fire prone area. I live in the same county where an entire town burned down a few years ago so we’re all a little edgy when we see fire or smoke. Earlier this year I was evacuated and the fire season hadn’t even really gotten started. I live in the county of the Park fire which is the fourth largest in California history.
I would get continual updates every time there was a change reassuring. It was a little scary when my phone beeped about every 10 minutes, but at the same time we had three other fires in my area so it was pretty busy. I strongly recommend that you pay the $25 to get updates. That’s two dollars a month for peace of mind. I do live in a Fire area so for my County I have every single update pushed to me. The two other counties that are adjacent to us that also tend to share their fires with us I get an update when there is a new fire. I also have my son’s County let me know when there is a new Fire since he’s also been burned out once.
I can’t recommend it highly enough. And that’s before they start adding camera views. Before I learned about the ability see which aircraft have been deployed, and before I figured out how to find out what the hotspots were and and that I could see the wind direction.
If you live in a fire area and you do not at least download the free copy, you have no excuse when you’re caught unaware.
I would get continual updates every time there was a change reassuring. It was a little scary when my phone beeped about every 10 minutes, but at the same time we had three other fires in my area so it was pretty busy. I strongly recommend that you pay the $25 to get updates. That’s two dollars a month for peace of mind. I do live in a Fire area so for my County I have every single update pushed to me. The two other counties that are adjacent to us that also tend to share their fires with us I get an update when there is a new fire. I also have my son’s County let me know when there is a new Fire since he’s also been burned out once.
I can’t recommend it highly enough. And that’s before they start adding camera views. Before I learned about the ability see which aircraft have been deployed, and before I figured out how to find out what the hotspots were and and that I could see the wind direction.
If you live in a fire area and you do not at least download the free copy, you have no excuse when you’re caught unaware.
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A Life-Saving and Property-Saving App❣️
I only recently discovered this marvelous app and because of its accurate and real-time information, I was able to avoid driving into a deadly situation. Yesterday, I was on my way from Bakersfield to Lake Isabella, for a second medical appointment. Just as we approached the mouth of Kern River Canyon and dead cell-phone coverage, we got an alert that a fire had broken out, mid-point in the canyon. Had we not slowed down, the road would have been blocked after we’d entered the canyon, instead of beforehand. The fast-growing Boral Fire is just tearing along the steep walls if the canyon and I can only hope that all those people working on the road repair, were able to evacuate quickly, as well❣️
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For Your Peace of Mind, everyone needs Watch Duty
I have a home at Lake Almanor. I’ve lived through the fear and not knowing what’s going on through The Camp and The Dixie fires. Watch Duty keeps one up to date and allow us to watch what is going on. Unfortunately, The Park Fire, which originated in Chico, is now threatening to enter the burn scar of the Dixie Fire and finish what the Dixie Fire couldn’t do, envelop the Lake Almanor area. I hope and Pray Cal Fire can stop it. At least now I know exactly what is happening. Thank you so much for your service. I am a retired widow and when all this uncertainty is over. I would like to volunteer with Watch Duty. I’m glued to you daily and sometimes nightly. Thank you so much. Your website has everything from wind direction to air quality.
Kathy
Kathy
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A Life-Saving and Property-Saving App❣️
I only recently discovered this marvelous app and because of its accurate and real-time information, I was able to avoid driving into a deadly situation. Yesterday, I was on my way from Bakersfield to Lake Isabella, for a second medical appointment. Just as we approached the mouth of Kern River Canyon and dead cell-phone coverage, we got an alert that a fire had broken out, mid-point in the canyon. Had we not slowed down, the road would have been blocked after we’d entered the canyon, instead of beforehand. The fast-growing Boral Fire is just tearing along the steep walls if the canyon and I can only hope that all those people working on the road repair, were able to evacuate quickly, as well❣️
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Hawarden fire
I downloaded the app to keep track of what was going on with my brothers house and my house and it helped me to know when to evacuate. As I was in my garage, I looked up & the plane was right at the end of my driveway dropping red goo so I figured out that if they were doing that there must be fire right there so since I wasn’t getting any notifications to evacuate, I knew I had to go so I grabbed my doggy and left and I’m in a wheelchair so luckily, my husband asked me to put some stuff in the car because he no one was here with me. My house was on the news, but it wasn’t because it was burned down It was because the fire was at my driveway and the great people in the plane got it put out before it took out my house so you helped save my house and my life. Thank you very much.!
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