A fire tornado is a real thing, and it can happen when there is a raging wildfire near a mountain. "Firenado" began trending Saturday night, after the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

Instead of 40-50 mph gusts, imagine winds topping 80 mph for five days straight. Subtract the two rainy days and two snowy weekends that have been Reno's only precipitation in months ...

Lareau, a professor and atmospheric scientist at the University of Nevada, Reno, a fire tornado is "a massive stream of rising, spinning, smoke, ash and fire" otherwise known as a fire-generated ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire tornado ...

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 National ...