Alexander Gonzalez
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
The app is called WatchDuty. It gives real-time alerts and brings together other key information, like evacuation warnings and power outages. Monitoring all this is a nonprofit made up of former emergency personnel. John Mills is the CEO of WatchDuty.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
Mills says in the first 48 hours since the L.A. fires began, the app got more than one million downloads. For NPR News, I'm Alexander Gonzalez in San Francisco.