"Fire tornado" is the latest entrant on 2020's list of new, scary and destructive things. The "extreme fire activity," brought on by conditions in the ongoing Loyalton Fire in Northern California ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

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While firefighters continued to battle the Los Angeles wildfires, dozens of people witnessed yet another weather phenomenon: a fire tornado. A Fox 11 Los Angeles video shows that the fire tornado ...

Timelapse footage captured by the University of California San Diego showed a terrifying development in the Park Fire as ...

In 2018, a fire tornado the size of three football fields ... “That’s also something that is dangerous and scary for first responders, or really anyone,” he said. “It can change and ...

Research also suggests fire tornadoes can carry airborne embers ... “That’s also something that is dangerous and scary for first responders, or really anyone,” he said.

FOX 11 Los Angeles/YouTube A "fire tornado" was spotted among the flames raging Los Angeles. In video footage captured by Fox 11 on Friday, Jan. 10, viewers were able to see swirling winds ...

Fire tornadoes can make fires stronger by sucking ... Bukaty “That’s also something that is dangerous and scary for first responders, or really anyone,” he said. “It can change and maybe ...