"Their system will get a ping and say, hey, there's a fire within a mile of your property, you should know about it,"
"Front-row seats-street-level view to what's actually happening-is a crazy concept,"
"We've seen this before. People will release flooding imagery or fire imagery and stuff from Ring cameras and put it out on Twitter."
"And then just gave us a fucking huge check and was like, we're going to build this, get it out fucking early next year. I'm like, alright."
A new partnership automates crowdsourcing of user video to aid emergency response. Watch Duty's system will ping users within a mile of detected fires and offer the option to share a live front-porch feed publicly. Live street-level video can reveal flooding, fire locations, and real-time conditions that could assist residents and first responders. More than 10,000 Ring cameras were present around the Palisades fires, representing potential additional viewpoints. Siminoff funded accelerated development with Watch Duty to deploy the feature early next year. Ring's data-sharing practices and the Neighbors app have raised privacy concerns, police partnerships, and lawsuits over video protection.
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