Popular Wildfire App Watch Duty Expands to Cover Floods Nationwide
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After helping track fires for years, Watch Duty is aiming to become your disaster go-to with flood coverage straight from the front lines.
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Like many on the West Coast, when fire season approaches, I switch on phone alerts from the popular free app Watch Duty. It combines reports from first responders, volunteers and other sources of data into a map and running log of nearby fires and their current status. It's one of the few apps that goes beyond being merely useful and can genuinely save lives. Starting Monday, Watch Duty is covering floods, too.
The flooding coverage is available nationwide at no extra cost, and adds...
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