These 'fire tornadoes' are from 2024 Wyoming blaze, not LA fires | Fact check
The video shows a pair of fire whirls from the Remington Fire, which began in August 2024 and burned through parts of Wyoming and Montana.
Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?
Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the LA area.
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Fire Tornadoes: Experts Warn L.A. Wildfires Could Create Deadly Phenomenon
A fire tornado, also called a firenado, results from a wildfire burning particularly hot during strong winds, which can swirl the flames into a phenomenon that resembles a tornado of flame.
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Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A fire lab shows how they work
FILE - This image taken from video released by Cal Fire shows a fire tornado over Lake Keswick ... Bukaty) Sparks fly during a controlled burning of brush in a wind tunnel in lab at Worcester ...
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Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?
A spinning fire vortex spotted ... akin to a dust devil than a tornado” and is less severe. “These spin up briefly along the flaming front of wildfires burning with sufficient intensity ...