The firenado emerged on Friday night and was captured on camera, with the footage going viral on social media.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Caught on camera: A ‘firenado’ or ‘fire whirl‘ quickly spun up in the high heat of the Los Angeles wildfires Friday night. During a helicopter flight from KOIN 6 ...

a firenado was reported with 143 mph winds, according to USA Today. “I’ve never seen anything like that in my career,” Dan Keeton, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service told ...