Firefighters in California are facing a rare and dangerous phenomenon as wildfires create swirling fire tornadoes. The combination of high winds and severely dry conditions have created a ...

California wildfires, including those triggered by lightning, are a fact of life. But what happened in the Roaring Twenties was among the most bizarre events in state fire history. On the morning ...

If that wasn't unnerving enough, the fire also generated its own tornadoes. The following day, April 8, J. E. Hissong from the nearby U.S. weather bureau office captured several fire tornadoes ...