Aerial firefighters have always been a critical line of defense against raging wildfires. But increasingly extreme blazes and ...

The video shows a pair of fire whirls from the Remington Fire, which began in August 2024 and burned through parts of Wyoming and Montana.

Fire whirls are typically found in wildfires, especially large and intense ones. In fact, California reported similar fire whirls from the Carr Fire in 2018 and the Loyalton Fire in 2020.

video taken by KTLA from the Palisades fires shows fire tornadoes or fire whirls forming. While they may look similar to a tornado associated with a thunderstorm, there is a key difference.

Fire whirls, often referred to as fire tornadoes, are fascinating phenomena that occur when flames and hot gases rise rapidly, creating a rotating column of fire. These whirls can significantly ...

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart captures rare 'fire whirl' spinning in California's wildfires form KTLA helicopter feed Friday, January 10, 2025.

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

The National Weather Service's warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in size in the Los Angeles area didn’t mention fire tornadoes ...

LOS ANGELES (WPRI) — Check out this video of what is a “fire whirl” or as many often refer to it, “fire tornado.” This phenomenon actually is not a tornado and occurs during large ...

The blaze looks similar to a twister. 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 ...

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.