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Watch Duty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of the recent wildfires<\/a> in southern California, Watch Duty<\/a>\u2014a simple, free app that provides real-time fire maps and alerts, and which prizes, and is prized for, accurate data, collated by its volunteer reporters\u2014has become the most popular app on the App Store and is being hailed as an essential lifeline: see The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>, The Verge<\/a><\/em>, Washington Post<\/a><\/em> (paywalls on some links).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the recent wildfires in southern California, Watch Duty\u2014a simple, free app that provides real-time fire maps and alerts, and which prizes, and is prized for, accurate data, collated by its volunteer… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,80,8],"tags":[323,487],"class_list":["post-1835910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-disasters","category-mobile","category-weather-and-climate","tag-california","tag-wildfires","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1835764,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/california-wildfires-january-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835910,"position":0},"title":"California Wildfires, January 2025","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 January 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Online maps of the current wildfires burning near Los Angeles: California\u2019s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) has incident pages for the Eaton, Hurst and Palisades fires, plus this 3D incident map. 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This story summarizes the situation; satellite images of the smoke generated by the fires can be seen here, here and here. https:\/\/twitter.com\/tierneyl\/status\/1305146959485898754 Marena Brinkhurst of Mapbox has a comprehensive list of open data sources relating to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disasters"","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nasa-eo-western-fires-20200909-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nasa-eo-western-fires-20200909-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nasa-eo-western-fires-20200909-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/nasa-eo-western-fires-20200909-1024x768.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5222,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/mapping-the-northern-california-wildfires\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835910,"position":5},"title":"Mapping the Northern California Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Maps and satellite imagery of the wildfires in Northern California include the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s interactive map; Robin Kraft's interactive map \u00a0showing satellite imagery from before and after the fire; this New York Times page mapping building damage in Santa Rosa; the\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s coverage of the devastation; and NASA Earth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disasters"","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NASA Earth Observatory","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835914,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835910\/revisions\/1835914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}