"We are in deep pain,” Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. LONDON and ISTANBUL -- A predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Turkey killed at least 76, with another ...

(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 ...

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 ...