Raw video captured a fire tornado on Kangaroo Island, and a similar wind and flame formation was responsible for killing an Australian firefighter and killing two others in New South Wales.

A terrifying video shows a so-called "fire tornado" forming on South Australia's Kangaroo Island as the country is ravaged by devastating bushfires. The video shows fire roaring through trees and ...

Australian volunteer firefighter Samuel McPaul. SYDNEY—A fire tornado lifted a 12-ton fire apparatus into the air and slammed it onto its roof, killing one firefighter and injuring two others as ...

Once this new, warmer, carbon dioxide-enriched atmosphere had proved itself capable of conjuring up a fire tornado, the question in 2003 was: Could it happen again? Australia is vast, drought ...

Fire tornadoes formed Thursday as wildfires continue to rage in Australia, eyewitness video shows. Brenton Davis, who shot video of one of the tornadoes, said in a Facebook post that it had formed ...

For 40 minutes, a bush fire burning across the Australian Outback swirled in a terrifying and breathtaking column of pure flame. The tornado of fire was caught on camera by Chris Tangey ...

After posting it, I got a note from Chris Tangey, who specializes in photography in Australia’s Outback. He took some footage of a fire tornado in 2012 (watch above) that he claimed was better ...

Air floods into that gap, creating an updraft that brings the fire with it. The current bushfire season in Australia comes after several years of record-breaking floods, which followed the Black ...

Perfect fire conditions in Australia are creating what's called "firenados," or fire-tornadoes. A flame from a bushfire whirled into the air above the flames. It's fueled by the fire, surrounding ...

Fire tornadoes formed Thursday as wildfires continue to rage in Australia, eyewitness video shows. Brenton Davis, who shot video of one of the tornadoes, said in a Facebook post that it had formed ...