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A fire whirl, fire devil or fire tornado is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often (at least partially) composed of flame or ash.These start with a whirl of wind, often made visible by smoke, and may occur when intense rising heat and turbulent wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies of air.
A California firefighter captured footage of a large fire tornado while he was battling the Beckwourth Complex Fire at Plumas National Forest.Video shot by Dean Soria shows the firenado swirling ...
A “fire tornado” swirled as a wildfire raged in British Columbia, Canada, last Thursday (17 August). Dramatic footage captured by overnight ground personnel responding to the Downton Lake ...
The tornadoes stemmed from the Park Fire, which started after a 42-year-old man from Chico allegedly pushed a burning car into a ditch. The fire engulfed 164,000 acres in 36 hours. The fire ...
Damage caused by the 1983 Los Angeles tornado This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The U.S. state of California experiences several tornadoes every year, with at least 488 twisters [nb 1] recorded since 1891. Among these are four fire whirls, a type of tornado that develops ...
The terms fire whirl and fire tornado have often been used interchangeably to describe a vortex of any size or duration occurring in a wildfire. Only in recent years have scientists begun to distinguish types of vortices from one another, in particular highlighting the rare cases of actual pyro-tornadogenesis (or tornado formation during/due to ...
Fire-tornadoes are triggered by hot, dry air rising rapidly from the ground, according to Live Science. They pick up burning embers, ash, flaming-hot gases and flammable debris to form a tower of ...
Media in category "Non-free pictures of tornadoes" The following 37 files are in this category, out of 37 total. 0–9. File:1974 Cincinnati F5 tornado.jpg;