🎉 Introducing Watch Duty Teams – a new way to manage your organization’s memberships with discounted pricing, starting at just 25 users! ⚪ Consolidated Billing and Invoicing: Manage all users (basic and pro) under one account with a single invoice, simplifying accounting and renewals ⚪ User Management: Easily add, remove, and assign memberships to users within an organization ⚪ Single Sign-On (SSO) Integration: Seamlessly and securely connect with existing identity providers to manage user access ⬆️ To purchase or upgrade your account, simply open the left main menu (☰) in the app and click on “Membership” or reach out to us directly at sales@watchduty.org. 🔥 And coming this summer to Watch Duty Pro: ⚪ GIS/ESRI Layer Import - Soon you’ll be able to upload your own internal map data directly into Watch Duty, making it accessible to your Pro users. In early testing, organizations have successfully imported everything from power lines and fire stations to a wide variety of other critical assets. With this new capability, your team can achieve shared situational awareness to enhance field safety and infrastructure protection—right within the app you already know and trust. ⚪ Fire Progression Models - We’ll be bringing the incredible work of the fire science research community directly into Watch Duty Pro. You'll be able to view and compare many of the widely used fire progression models right within the app. You will be able to see and compare many of the generally available models right within the app. ⚪ Fuel Types and Moisture Readings - View the comprehensive FBFM40 (40 Scott and Burgan Fire Behavior Fuel Models) classification system as a new base map layer to view the vegetation types and fuel loads. Additionally, view recent fuel readings that include moisture, fuel type, and fuel category. ⚪ Weather Stations and Alerts - We are not only adding over 600,000 weather stations like RAWS to our map, we will give you the ability to alert on individual thresholds. For example, want to know when relative humidity (RH) drops below 5% in a given region? Or when gusts top 70 MPH on a nearby peak? Now you can stop the guesswork and get ground truth data, rather than prediction, sent directly to you. (fb)

Last weekend, more than 60 members of the Watch Duty team—reporters, radio operators, and volunteers—traveled from across the American West to gather in Sonoma County, where Watch Duty first began. Together, we've spent countless nights tracking some of the most harrowing wildfires in recent memory. Many of us had never met in person until now—but that never stopped us. Like wildfire, we aren’t bound by jurisdictions or borders. We’re bound by a shared commitment to serve: our families, our neighbors, our communities and the lands that we call home. The Internet has allowed us to be borderless and has given us the ability to be everywhere all at once. It has allowed us to collaborate, cut through the noise, spot wildfire signals to identify the threat, and deliver life-saving information when it matters most. This photo captures more than a moment—it represents a community built on trust, dedication, and purpose. We are deeply grateful for every person who makes Watch Duty what it is. But there’s also something that this photograph doesn’t capture – over 100 other team members who manned the radios while we were here. In many ways, they were here with us. Ever-watchful, ever-caring—the quiet guardians behind the scenes who look out for all of us. Though they couldn’t join us in person, their presence was felt in every story told and in every moment of reflection and celebration. This team and the mission that we share extends far beyond those who gathered last weekend. It lives in every act of service, in each person who rises to meet the moment when a new ignition happens. Whether behind the screen of a Zoom call, a keyboard, or a radio scanner, their dedication is at the heart of this work. Thank you for being a part of this extraordinary team and for helping to ensure that communities across the American West stay informed, supported and safe. (fb)