This fire whirl was seen over Gun Lake in British Columbia. Fire whirls are created when there is a combination of high fire intensity, strong winds and air mass instability. Fire whirls are also ...

Imagine seeing a glowing sphere floating through the sky during a thunderstorm. That's ball lightning, a mysterious and rare weather phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for years. These glowing ...

A wildfire in Southwest Miami-Dade closed roads and snarled traffic to the Florida Keys starting on Tuesday, and it also displayed a lesser-seen phenomenon caught on NBC6 cameras: a fire tornado.

Last March residents of the Los Angeles foothills were forced to take to their roof-tops with garden hoses to fight walls of fire which razed 10,000 acres. A fire storm in Dorchester last May ...