For some time wild­fire has been burned in 11 states of north­west USA with
Wash­ing­ton begin among the worst hit.

There the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES) and Radio Ama­teur Civil
Emer­gency Ser­vice (RACES) have sup­port­ed the communication …

The con­tin­u­ing vol­canic erup­tions on Java near Bali con­tin­ues with ash that has at times, depend­ing upon wind direc­tion, stopped flights to the pop­u­lar hol­i­day destination.

The dis­rup­tions also came as mil­lions of Indone­sians set off on hol­i­days ahead of …

The Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion is ready to play its role alongside
oth­er agen­cies in an earth­quake drill, run by the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Mani­la Development
Authority.

Jojo Vicen­cio DU1VHY advis­es that the main area of con­cen­tra­tion contains
17 local gov­ern­ment units, …

In the morn­ing of April 25 an earth­quake mea­sur­ing 7.8 hit Nepal and trig­gered an avalanche on Mount Ever­est. There were fre­quent after-shocks includ­ing a mag­ni­tude of 6.7 on April 26, and on May 12 anoth­er earth­quake mea­sured 7.3 magnitude. …

Fol­low­ing recent heavy mon­soon rain in the sprawl­ing and dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed Mum­bai on Indi­a’s west coast, HAMS were involved in response preparedness. 

Jayu Bhide VU2JAU, the Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor for Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in India, tells us that when Mum­bai was …