These swirling columns of fire and ash look like tornadoes but they form differently from regular tornadoes that develop along the base of thunderstorms. Wildfires produce a lot of heat ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...