Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the ...

Wildfires tearing through Southern California have already burned tens of thousands of acres and structures down. Now, ...

When a wildfire intensely heats air close to the ground, it can rise rapidly and start to spin into a narrow vortex. As more ...

But Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, told USA TODAY that it instead appears to be an example of a fire whirl, which is “more akin to a dust devil than a tornado” and is less severe.