Wildfires can spin up more than smoke and flame. Under the right conditions, the rising heat above a fire begins to rotate, ...
Inside a large wildfire, the flames do not always climb straight up. Under the right conditions the fire can begin to spin, drawing itself into a vertical column of rotating flame and smoke that ...
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 ...