We also need to be aware of large-scale fires and fire tornadoes.

For comparison, Japan's total national budget for 1923 ... so large that they generated their own high winds, turning into fire whirls or cyclones that consumed everything in their path.

Fire whirls occur when superheated air near the surface of a large fire zone rises rapidly in an air mass that also spins, much like a dust devil or whirlwind. But instead of dust, the rapidly ...

They may sound like something from science fiction, but "fire whirls" are in fact real. And the flaming vortexes have been spotted in recent days by firefighters battling a blaze along the ...