A fire did significant damage to a trailer home Friday afternoon. It started around 1:45 p.m. in a home in the Woodland Park ...

When intense wildfires take place, they sometimes spawn a rare weather event known as a fire tornado. Fire tornados, also known as fire vortices or fire whirls, are not tornadoes in the true sense.

A whirling vortex of smoke seen on camera as the "Park Fire" in California exploded Thursday looked just like a tornado, but scientists are investigating whether it was a rare fire tornado or just ...

That's when a wildfire plume combines with rotating air to form a "spinning column of fire" akin to a small tornado. As fire whirls stretch higher, they become skinnier and spin faster.

The fire tornado spawned by the devastating Carr Fire in California last month killed a firefighter as he was trying to evacuate residents, according to a report released Wednesday. The 18-page ...

Saskatchewan saw a tornado touch down in the southwest yesterday, but a local southwest photographer was there to capture the ...

The fire tornado, or “extreme fire activity,” brought on by the Loyalton Fire in Northern California, blazed through nearly 50,000 acres of land. After a difficult battle, the blaze is now 93% ...

to issue what is believed to be the first weather alert of its kind: a “fire tornado warning.” “Amazing event. Not aware of this ever before,” wrote Neil Lareau, who studies extreme fire ...

Broken power lines. A gas pipe wrapped around a tree. The damage came after a fire tornado, for lack of a better term, ripped through this area of Northern California, about a mile and a half away ...

A popular St. Louis restaurant in the Central West End officially reopened on Monday! Session Taco was originally shut down by a fire in June 2022 and last month's tornado kept it closed a bit longer.