New video has emerged of a so-called ‘fire twister’ or ‘firenado’ forming on Kangaroo Island in Australia, where more than 1,500 square kilometres, or nearly half the island, has been burned.
TORONTO -- Just when the apocalyptic imagery of the Australian wildfires couldn’t get any worse, new footage has emerged of flames on Kangaroo Island curling up from the ground and spinning into the sky like a tornado from hell.
A whirlwind of ash, smoke and dirt swirl above the ground. Then, for several seconds, flames are kicked up into the vortex, forming the fiery dust devil before the video cuts out.“We had a fair few of them today and it wasn’t even a hot day,” DavisThe unsettling phenomenon doesn’t last long, but are often mistakenly referred to as a fire tornado or “firenado.
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