Authorities urged residents to get prepared for what could be a potentially dangerous storm set to slam the region, ...

At least eight people were injured on Saturday after fire engulfed a former electrical plant building in Moscow, Russian state media reported. Eight people were injured, with three requiring hospital ...

A California utility says its equipment may have sparked a small wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as two ...

In the scenic town scarred by last year’s wildfires, locals focus on healing and accepting fire as ‘part of life’ ...

He drove through the fire lines and into his neighborhood to see if he ... and piles of brush left from a particularly wet winter last year, the firestorm was like a tornado shooting flames, blasting ...

(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) 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 ...

LOS ANGELES – Fire tornadoes are a rare and frightening phenomenon that can be produced by wildfires. These fiery whirlwinds of flames form when gusty winds interact with intense heat columns ...

These can reach well over 100 miles an hour and behave more like tornado winds ... not designed to combat a firestorm. It is designed to put out the occasional house fire and keep your toilet ...

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.

A Jan. 9 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be two tornadoes moving through a burning rural landscape. “Did you know that Cali gets fire tornadoes?!” the post reads.

Fire tornadoes could result from the Los Angeles wildfires. A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California ...