Firewhirls are apparently pretty common out west during wildland fires. I'm on the fire dept for our little town here and we had some fairly intensive wildland fire training back in the fall....we watched several videos on how firewhirls form and what they are indicative of.

Cool to watch...from a distance.

Dale

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