The eerie fire whirl spotted spinning as the Palisades Fire swept through Los Angeles neighborhoods Friday night was a “firenado,” a common yet chilling phenomenon. These flaming twisters ...

A firenado is a whirl of fire and ash caused by intense heat and turbulent wind conditions. The Daily Universe is an educational lab tied to the curriculum of the journalism sequence in the BYU ...

Wild footage shows the moments a "firenado" broke out in the midst of the chaos that was the Palisades Fire escalating once again on Friday, moving quickly towards Mandeville Canyon near Brentwood.

The firenado was part of the Palisades Fire burning in the hills near Brentwood, an expensive neighborhood in Los Angeles. More for You RFK Jr. react after Trump signs order to declassify JFK, MLK ...

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 ...

If you saw "firenado" in your news feed this weekend and you're scratching your head, you're not alone. A fire tornado is a real thing, and it can happen when there is a raging wildfire near a ...

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.