# Fire Tech and Improving Access to Wildfire Information, with Watch Duty Founder John Clarke Mills

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Podcast: [Life with Fire](https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999)
Published: 2024-07-23T15:23:24+00:00
Episode link: https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com/episodes/fire-tech-and-improving-access-to-wildfire-information-with-watch-duty-founder-john-clarke-mills-_LUNTu6i
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## Resource

With fire season escalating across the West this week, many people are downloading Watch Duty App for the first time. But what is Watch Duty all about? Why was it created? Where does their information come from? What do agency employees think about it? We spoke to Watch Duty CEO John Mills about the Watch Duty app as well as fire technology more broadly, and gave him a chance to respond to some listener questions from PIOs, wildland firefighters, community resilience experts and others in the Life with Fire community. His responses are about as no-BS as they come, and he provided an honest assessment of where the app is currently and where he'd like it to be in the near and far-off future. A few things they're adding in the near future include a version of the app just for first responders, which John speaks to in the episode, while in the longer term he's looking forward to exploring how Watch Duty can provide more opportunities for community education about wildfire and wildfire resilience.

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