A wildfire that started in a California national park has burned tens of thousands of acres – and is so intense that it's spewing dangerous spinning whirlwinds of fire. Officials said that the York ...

OITA—A “fire whirl” was observed in the deadly conflagration that has devastated the Saganoseki district of Oita city.

California’s largest wildfire of the year is tearing through the Mojave Desert and creating dangerous spinning columns of flames known as fire whirls. These twirling vortices are dangerous for crews ...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KTLA) – Dramatic video captured Saturday shows a fire whirl that sprang up while crews were battling the Chaparral Fire in Southern California. The video, shared by the ...

Firefighters recently spotted the spinning columns of flames as they battled the York Fire along the California-Nevada border. They may sound like something from science fiction, but "fire whirls" are ...

Most of us think we know what weather looks like. Rain, wind, the occasional thunderstorm rattling the windows. Some have ...

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. (United States Coast Guard) Our oceans are under constant threat. In addition to plastic ...

Fire whirls are intense, self-sustaining vortices of flame that arise when buoyant hot gases converge and impart rotation to the fire plume. The interplay of vorticity, circulation and buoyant ascent ...

TENNANT CREEK, Australia – Dramatic video recorded in the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek in Australia shows the moment a “firenado,” or fire whirl whipped up and started spinning across ...