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 ...

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.

There were oohs and aahs all around Friday afternoon in Kevin Bingham’s chemistry classroom at Citrus High School as his “Chem 2” students treated four pre-K classes from nearby Inverness ...