Video shows a massive “smokenado” over a California wildfire as experts explain how wildfires can create ash devils and fire ...

A wildfire in eastern Utah spawned a fire-induced tornado on July 12, experts with the U.S. National Weather Service confirmed on Wednesday. The tornado occurred during the Deer Creek Wildfire burning ...

Ashes and smoke cover the sky. Your hometown is sieged by massive wildfires. You rush to escape. Unaware that behind you, the wind and the heat have created a monster. A spinning tower of flames. In a ...

🔥 What’s a firenado? It’s exactly what it sounds like—a swirling column of fire! When intense heat from a wildfire mixes with just the right wind conditions, it creates a spinning vortex of flames, ...

Utah isn’t exactly known for tornadoes. Since 2000, only two significant tornadoes had hit the Beehive State. But that changed last weekend, when a rare fire tornado brought destructive winds up to ...

Less harsh winds have made it possible for firefighters to more easily fight the fires, AcuWeather reported. There was no major fire outbreak in Los Angeles on Wednesday and most of the red flag fire ...

Death came in an instant. And as never seen before in California history. The Redding firefighter who died on July 26 as the fast-growing Carr Fire hit its apex was in fact killed by a fire tornado, ...

Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...