Gusts in the Carr fire tornado reached between 136 and 165 miles per hour, the Chronicle reported. The video, taken from a helicopter near the fire's edge, shows the fire tornado clearly forming a ...

A tornado? Scary. Wildfire? Horrific. A tornado made out of fire? Just about the most terrifying thing Mother Nature can whip up. On July 26, the Carr Fire near Redding, Calif., unleashed a vortex ...

One such conflagration was this summer’s Carr Fire, which burned through nearly ... The spinning blaze was about as intense as an EF-3 tornado, and it sent meteorologists scrambling to try ...

The devastating Carr Fire continues to burn through parts ... nightmarish turn when what locals are calling a fire tornado, documented in video footage and first-person accounts, tore through ...

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"It was hard because it's our home," Carr said. As the tornado approached, Carr and 14 others took cover in a vault at the local library. "It was really scary, because I'm like, Oh my gosh ...

“This is the first time, up close and personal, that you really thought your life might be at risk,” said Carr. “We actually saw the Tornado coming, my wife was on the rear deck, and she ...