NightHawkInLight. How to Make a Fire Tornado. Posted: March 17, 2025 | Last updated: March 17, 2025. This demonstration has been around for a few years now and I figured it was about time I gave ...

A fire tornado, fire whirl, or fire devil is a spinning column of air created by a wildfire. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the 13News Now app. Download the 13News Now app.

Wildfires can generate tornado-like fire whirls and other "unpredictable and erratic" weather. An atmospheric scientist explains how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In 2018, a fire tornado the size of three football fields killed a firefighter as it exploded in what already was a vast and devastating wildfire near Redding, about 250 miles (400 kilometers ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The ...

The fire is one of multiple blazes that have scorched over 40,000 acres in the Los Angeles area in the past week, wiping out communities. The blaze looks similar to a twister.

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 ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The ...

A fire tornado was confirmed in the Loyalton Fire in California in 2020. A tornado was photographed inside a plume in Langdon, North Dakota on Oct. 24, 2011.

Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.

Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.