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Watch Duty surpasses ChatGPT as top free app on App Store as California fires spread


Watch Duty, an app to track wildfires with live maps and alerts, has become the number one free app in Apple's App Store as of Wednesday morning. The fire

“Friends in LA: Download the Watch Duty app to track the fire in real time,” said Ryan Peterson, the CEO of Flexport in a tweet on Tuesday. “It’s the official wild fire app used by the firemen in California with very granular real time updates, video feeds and evacuation maps.” The app’s founder and CEO, John Mills, told the Washington Post earlier this year that he started Watch Duty after moving to a fire-prone area of Northern California.

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