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What are pyroclouds? Arizona and Utah wildfires fuel threat of 'fire tornadoes'
Videos circulating on social media Thursday show the fire generating massive pyrocumulus clouds — also known as pyroclouds or "fire clouds." ...
Grand Canyon fire grows into a megafire and creates its own weather. It’s not done yet
The Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size to 105,415 acres along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim on Thursday as heat and strong ...
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Fire at Grand Canyon National Park grows beyond 100,000 acres
The wildfire—one the few to burn more than 100,000 acres this summer—is burning on the more remote North Rim 11 miles away.
A look at megafires as an Oregon wildfire approaches the 100,000-acre mark
A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge ...
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The fire that devastated a Sierra town created a pyrocumulus cloud ...
The Thomas fire created a huge pyrocumulus cloud in December 2017. The Mountain View fire that largely destroyed the small town of Walker, Calif., this week gave rise to a similar phenomenon.