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As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The National ...

Fire tornadoes can make fires stronger by sucking ... scale than what's happening with the wildfires. ''We've got the biggest fire lab in the U.S. for a university, but we cannot get something ...

The biggest storm of the winter walloped Southern California on Thursday, forcing the closure of Pacific Coast Highway, ...

Fire tornadoes can make fires stronger by sucking ... scale than what's happening with the wildfires. "We've got the biggest fire lab in the U.S. for a university, but we cannot get something ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire tornado ...

Fire tornadoes can make fires stronger by sucking ... scale than what’s happening with the wildfires. “We’ve got the biggest fire lab in the U.S. for a university, but we cannot get ...

researchers have created small fire tornadoes by putting up walls around a fire or arranging a bunch of little fires that together restrict airflow. But that’s on a much smaller scale than what’s ...

“It creates a tornado track, and wherever this goes ... “We’ve got the biggest fire lab in the U.S. for a university, but we cannot get something the size of what’s been reported at ...