A Bay Area woman who turned personal tragedy into a wildfire alert app is now fighting in court to stop a company from launching what she says is a confusingly similar product under a similar name.
Rachael Brady, creator of the wildfire tracking app Wildfire Aware, says the idea for the app grew out of one of the most painful moments of her life: the deadly 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County, which destroyed her childhood home and devastated her longtime community near Redding…