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 ...

Firenado refers to huge towers of fire that ... This comes after the National Weather Service issued a critical fire risk alert for parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

How about a whirling spiral of fire? In California, amid deadly wildfires, high winds have kicked up the rare phenomenon that is a firenado. You can check out the video below, which showed high ...