Fire Tornado in Brazil

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This happened in the last 24 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssn2kmNf0ME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cYrUI7PDE

The footage isn't spectacular, but it's still a rarity worth looking at due to just how seldom it ever occurs.




Here's a much older video of a fire tornado that was artificially created in a controlled indoor environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kQbGa72tM




And here's a naturally occuring fire tornado that happened in Los Angeles a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwfNSLshW8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwfNSLshW8




And here's another. Kinda creepy looking one here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fw1qiAld2U&feature=related
 

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Actually, that's pretty good footage. In big conflagrations these things probably happen more often than we know, but they are hard to see, being wrapped up in smoke and other flamy stuff. The greatest loss of life in a fire in U.S. history occurred in the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, near Green Bay, in 1871. A massive forest fire spawned a gigantic fire tornado that leveled the town and killed over 1500 people (probably many more). Many fled to nearby water to immerse themselves and died anyway from lack of oxygen, as the fire simply consumed it all.

This event occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, and little attention was paid to it as a consequence. It's worth reading about.
 
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blacbird said:
Actually, that's pretty good footage. In big conflagrations these things probably happen more often than we know, but they are hard to see, being wrapped up in smoke and other flamy stuff. The greatest loss of life in a fire in U.S. history occurred in the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, near Green Bay, in 1871. A massive forest fire spawned a gigantic fire tornado that leveled the town and killed over 1500 people (probably many more). Many fled to nearby water to immerse themselves and died anyway from lack of oxygen, as the fire simply consumed it all.

This event occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, and little attention was paid to it as a consequence. It's worth reading about.
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That's rather an odd coincidence, isn't it? Was it summer?
 

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October 8, 1871. The entire upper Midwest had been in a prolonged drought, and things everywhere were drier than Dick Cheney's soul. It was a kind of fiery equivalent of "perfect storm" conditions. So, not exactly a coincidence that Chicago and Peshtigo, which are only 200 miles apart or so, would burn on the same day. I should have provided this link to start with:

http://www.peshtigofire.info/
 
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Nature is scary and beautiful, sometimes both at the same time. Hey! I just remembered. The SyFy channel's movie called Fire Serpent, with Nicholas Brendon (from Buffy), has a fire monster that comes alive, swirls around and enters the bodies of people that go on a killing spree. (I have a not-so-secret penchant for these cheesy movies.) :mob
 
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