Unsettling weather triggered an unusual warning by the weather service of a fire-induced tornado at an out-of-control forest fire that broke out north of Lake Tahoe on Saturday afternoon. A ...

An explosive wildfire burning in Northern California whipped up a rare and dangerous fire tornado on ... The Loyalton Fire has burned some 20,000 acres north of Lake Tahoe since igniting ...

The right mix of weather conditions on the West Coast led to a swirling tornado of flames over the weekend.A wildfire began northeast of Loyalton, California, near Lake Tahoe, and a massive cloud ...

The Loyalton Fire ignited Friday, Aug. 14, north of Lake Tahoe. KateLynn / @v3katelynn The Loyalton Fire near Lake Tahoe erupted over the weekend of Aug. 15, 2020.

Johnson said preliminary reports indicate the tornado spawned by the fire was the equivalent of an EF-1, which packs three-second wind gusts between 86 mph and 110 mph, or an EF-2, with three ...

Caldor Fire moves closer to California's South Lake Tahoe, ... the National Weather Service tweeted a video of a fire tornado, or "fire whirl," from San Diego County's 1,500-acre Chaparral Fire.

Fire tornadoes, also known as firenadoes, are among the rarest and most terrifying weather phenomena on Earth, ... Six people dead and two missing after boat capsizes on California’s Lake Tahoe.

As thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents returned to their homes Monday, officials issued a warning to be on the lookout for bears who have been wandering through the evacuated neighborhoods ...

Since the fire landed in the Tahoe basin on Monday, everything has seemed vulnerable, all the places that crowd the lake. On Tuesday night the fire ravaged stands of trees but did not seem to move ...

A California wildfire spawned an apparent fire tornado Thursday, a phenomenon that's happened several times in recent years in the state. Caught on camera: This large fire tornado was generated ...