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Watch Duty app promoted as community-powered wildfire alert tool
Summary
Emergency managers and partners highlighted Watch Duty, a community-powered wildfire alert app that provides rapid, on-the-ground reports of new fires, changing conditions and evacuations to supplement official notifications.
The Emergency Management Office briefed the committee on Watch Duty, a community-powered wildfire alert app designed to provide rapid, local reporting on new fires, changing conditions, evacuations and containment progress.
Officials said the app is intended to be a boots-on-the-ground complement to official notifications, enabling residents to see near real-time reports of incidents and changing fire behavior. The committee encouraged outreach to increase local registration and use of the tool as a supplemental information source during the coming wildfire season.
No official endorsement or formal integration with county alert systems was recorded in the meeting notes; the app was discussed as one of several public-facing tools to improve situational awareness.
