Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

The app provides users with real-time fire perimeters, evacuation orders ... his home west of Healdsburg in northern California's Sonoma County because of the Walbridge Fire in 2020, he kept ...

Watch Duty founder John Mills at his property in Sonoma County. (Photo by Gabrielle ... it combines publicly available maps of fires, evacuation orders and warnings — similar to what Cal Fire ...

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That first message on Watch Duty reached about 6,000 enrolled users in the original three-county ... with fire maps, photos, live video from fire lookout cameras, notices of evacuation orders ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a wildfire alerting app founded in Sonoma ... maps of fire incidents and weather alerts. "Showing the surface wind on the map, showing the evacuation ...

An app built on an off-the-grid ranch in rural Sonoma County, California ... it combines publicly available maps of fires, evacuation orders and warnings—similar to what Cal Fire provides ...

By Larry Barnett An unusually large crowd of local residents packed the meeting room at Vintage House on the evening of ...