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Watch Duty

Watch Duty

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.www.watchduty.org

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Oct 27, 2026

BetsyHOST
1:43
any.
BetsyHOST
1:44
Yeah, I'm on watch duty.
AliHOST
1:45
I love WatchDuty.
AliHOST
1:46
Love WatchDuty.
AliHOST
1:46
Well, I don't love it because it's...
AliHOST
1:48
I mean, but it's very...
Mitchell WhitfieldHOST
3:03
You were saying you've got to leave.
Mitchell WhitfieldHOST
3:05
So we didn't make it to that point, but I was watching the map last night because Watch Duty is the name of the map, the name of the app that we use that maps the fire, gives you and great for the people that work with that app.
Mitchell WhitfieldHOST
3:16
Thank you so much.
Mitchell WhitfieldHOST
3:17
It's so helpful.
Chris MerrillHOST
6:00
Yeah.
Chris MerrillHOST
6:00
Well, that was one of the things that we discussed on Friday is if you go to watch duty, you can zoom in to where you live and it has all the zones broken.
Chris MerrillHOST
6:07
That's helpful.
Chris MerrillHOST
6:07
It was very helpful.
Chris MerrillHOST
8:32
You're reading the notes, and the notes that I got this morning, they flip-flopped those.
Chris MerrillHOST
8:36
Okay.
Chris MerrillHOST
8:36
Bryson Fire, 570 acres, 75% contained at this point, and that's from Watch Duty.
Chris MerrillHOST
8:43
The Bryson Fire, that's the one in Malibu, and that's the thing.
DanHOST
1:12
It's very cool." And it's free, guys.
DanHOST
1:14
It's called, um, Watch Duty, and it's a free app, and it's nationwide.
DanHOST
1:18
And I did a Facebook video on this.
DanHOST
1:20
And what it does is it tells you where the wildfires are at, and it started with a guy that lost his home in a wildfire and made this nationwide app that's a 501[c][3].
Tim Conway Jr.HOST
8:13
Bill Handel, he had to evacuate within a quarter mile of this fire in San Juan Capistrano.
speaker_3HOST
8:20
You know, a lot of times we've talked about, especially when these fires are coming on, that our, o- one of our go-to apps that we l- check out is Watch Duty.
Tim Conway Jr.HOST
8:28
Yeah.
speaker_3HOST
8:28
Uh, and i- the interesting thing about those, the maps that they have, the fire map, they'll allow people to submit pictures from, like, their Ring cameras and things like that.
JohnGUEST
16:58
Uh, also, OC- OCFA has a X, uh, account, and they, uh, do updates constantly.
JohnGUEST
17:05
There's also a great app called Watch Duty, which maybe you are monitoring yourself.
Chris MerrillHOST
17:10
I am.
JohnGUEST
17:10
It gives you very accurate updates, um, long before the media gets them.

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Chris MerrillHOST
30:50
... 10, 11, or 3-
Deborah MarkCORRESPONDENT
30:51
Do you know what your zone is?
Chris MerrillHOST
30:52
So I, I did look it up on the, on the Watch Duty app, and I'm just in, in Pasadena.
Deborah MarkCORRESPONDENT
30:57
Okay.
Chris MerrillHOST
11:22
...
Chris MerrillHOST
11:22
I'm telling you, uh, I'm looking at the Watch Duty.
Chris MerrillHOST
11:24
If you just go to watchduty.org, um, Watch Duty does have your zone as in an evacuation zone right now.
Chris MerrillHOST
11:32
Uh, so-
Lou PenroseGUEST
11:32
Well, that's a boo.
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:12
This red flag alert is one step below that, so still very significant.
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:18
And if you are a fan of the WatchDuty app, well...
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:23
That thing was blowing up yesterday in terms of notifications about little fires that were popping up.
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:27
And thankfully, because we had so many of our firefighters pre-deployed in some of those situations, they were able to get a handle on a lot of them.
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:52
It's supposed to be the peak when it comes to the high winds that we have seen.
Gary HoffmannHOST
5:56
And that could cause some problems if you are a fan of the Watch Duty app, as I mentioned earlier today.
Gary HoffmannHOST
6:03
That thing was popping off yesterday.
Gary HoffmannHOST
6:05
Uh, every few minutes we were getting updates on fires that were, uh, that were out, uh, fires that were out there, I should say.
Chris MerrillHOST
0:46
We're keeping an eye on it right now.
Chris MerrillHOST
0:48
Uh, was this from Cal Fire? Oh, from Watch Duty.
Lou PenroseGUEST
0:51
Watch Duty.
Chris MerrillHOST
0:51
From the, the Watch Duty app, yeah.
Chris MerrillHOST
0:53
Um, uh, Latuna Canyon Road in 210, uh, Tujunga, one acre fire.
Chris MerrillHOST
0:59
Calling it the Norma Fire right now.

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