A man has said he fought off an alleged knife attacker at a Sainsbury's Argos warehouse by hitting him on the head with a fire extinguisher. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to ...

In addition to the massive blazes, firefighters in California could also encounter another very dangerous phenomenon, which is a fire tornado. On Jan. 10, one of those terrifying fire tornadoes ...

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.

A Jan. 9 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be two tornadoes moving through a burning rural landscape. “Did you know that Cali gets fire tornadoes?!” the post reads.

Fire tornadoes could result from the Los Angeles wildfires. A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A researcher describes the destructive power of the fires in Los Angeles, particularly the formation of fire ...