And once in Canberra in 2003.
Everything else that I have seen referred to as such would probably more accurately be called a fire whirl or a large rotating vertical plume.
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I recall reading a report about the Carr fire how it blew a dozer sideways on a gravel road for a couple of tractor widths, along with lots of broken glass, etc. Has anything like that happened on another fire? I would expect a lot of blown over timber (or burned sticks as the case may be) if it happened in a timber area.
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Or just firewhirl or dust devil. No reason to make up new names for something that is common
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From Alaska DNR Douglas burts.
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This is exactly the instance that came to my mind in this conversation. Not a fire-whirl or dust devil, but a true fire tornado.
They are rare but do happen… Just not as much as the click-bait media wants us to believe.
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