How Watch Duty became an essential app during the Los Angeles wildfires
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Since the Palisades Fire broke out on the morning of Jan. 7, several more wildfires have ravaged the Los Angeles area. At least 27 people have died and more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed.
In the middle of all of this, a false evacuation alert sent to all of L.A. County's approximately 10 million residents on Jan. 9 added to the chaos, as many Angelenos were left unsure what to believe.
"While the city alerts are definitely alarming, we just aren't able to take any city push alerts at face value after [a] couple rounds of mistakes," Sharvari Akre-Bhide, a clinical researcher living in L.A., told CBS News.

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