Fire tornadoes, also known as fire whirls, fire devils ... windy conditions where large wildfires burn through areas with plenty of fuel, like forests or grasslands. Scientists are studying ...

but it defines a fire whirl as a "spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke, debris and flame," and says large whirls "have the intensity of ...

but it defines a fire whirl as a "spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke, debris and flame," and says large whirls "have the intensity of ...