The lat­est to suf­fer­er sum­mer fires is Cyprus where radio ama­teurs are using their skills main­ly on the VHF band in the Solea region to pass health and wel­fare traffic. 

The involve­ment of hams is being coor­di­nat­ed by the …

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers in New Mexico USA had responded to the Dog Head fire affecting a wide area and causing activations.

ARES is sup­port­ing Emer­gency Oper­a­tions Cen­tres as well as pro­vid­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the …

Trained indi­vid­u­als took part in the Cas­ca­dia Ris­ing Earth­quake drill in the USA and Cana­da, with up to 20,000 peo­ple includ­ing radio ama­teurs, fire­fight­ers, the Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Response Team and Red Cross mem­bers, the med­ical reserve, law enforce­ment and others …

The Friedrichshafen Ham­fest in Ger­many on June 24–26 is to have an IARU Region 1 ses­sion about radio ama­teurs involved in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions around the world. 

Infor­ma­tion is being gath­ered by IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Coor­di­na­tor, Greg Mossop G0DUB. …

Mod­ern soci­ety depends enor­mous­ly on elec­tric pow­er to func­tion whether in the home, retail and com­merce, indus­try or just the facil­i­ties of traf­fic sig­nals and safe­ty light­ing at night. 

An exer­cise on June 8 had a pow­er out­age sce­nario in the …