Giving every community a lifeline.
All donations will be matched.
Thanks to a generous family foundation and a new $60,000 matching gift from PagerDuty, every donation made by year end is doubled — up to $160,000.
Expanding nationwide
Every community deserves trusted, real-time information when disaster strikes. Watch Duty’s volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and community reporters monitor emergencies around the clock to deliver verified, life-saving updates.
Millions already rely on Watch Duty for clarity in moments of chaos—and now, we’re expanding nationwide so every community has access to this trusted service.
Your support makes it possible. Every gift helps keep Watch Duty free and ad-free, trains more volunteer reporters, and strengthens the technology behind our alerts. As we build out national coverage, your generosity ensures that when the next disaster hits, everyone can access the information they need most.
“If I didn't have Watch Duty and didn't see the encroaching fire, I would've been trying to grab important essentials and wrangle my animals at the literal last minute. The flames were only 100 yds from my house when I left. Imagine elderly or disabled or folks with small kids trying to get out under those circumstances with very little notice. That's not okay."
— Christine M., Spokane fire survivor
“There was a fire that popped up on Watch Duty, and I knew immediately where it was. We went to our friend’s house and helped evacuate horses, brought our own water trucks, and helped extinguish that fire before it became something bigger.”
— Barbara W., Watch Duty user
