The family, from the Blanchard and Cole area, had their home hit by the Cole tornado in 2023, so they moved into a small home ...

ST. LOUIS – The new fire safety training trailer for the St. Louis Fire Department is almost like something you’d find on a ...

In 2018, a fire tornado the size of three football fields killed a firefighter as it exploded in what already was a vast and devastating wildfire near near Redding, about 250 miles north of San ...

Major Roger Leslie Leatherman of the Laurel County Fire Department in Kentucky died in the line of duty while responding to a recent tornado just shy of his 39-year anniversary with the department.

Fire tornadoes occur when intense wind combines with conditions in the atmosphere to produce clouds of smoke that reach 20,000 to 40,000 feet, Swain said.

While a fire tornado is not a true tornado, it does have the look of a tornado. Here's how that happens: a wildfire drastically warms the air above it. This fired-warmed air rises.

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.

Fire tornadoes, she added, are "not the same as a regular tornado." What Happens Next. Firefighters continue to battle the wildfires in Southern California.

The National Weather Service's warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in size in the Los Angeles area didn’t mention fire tornadoes.

WRTV is excited to work with the Monroe Fire Protection District in spreading the message about staying safe when severe ...

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. The ...

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. The ...