I was 5, I remember I was watching the wiggles in the afternoon, my parents had closed the blinds, but I opened them and the sky was black. I remember seeing the fires in Tuggeranong down by pine island, I'll never forget that day.
I lived in Flynn my whole life, and when this was happening, red embers were flying through the air, and into my yard, all the way from the other side of Canberra... It was scary af
during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII, the concentration of the incendiaries created heat so intense that it started a firestorm. It sucked the oxygen out of the cellars where people had taken refuge. Smoldering coal emitted carbon monoxide asphyxiating more people. There are witness accounts of trees, furniture (and people) being sucked through the streets and into the center of the firestorm. The city was packed with refugees fleeing from the Soviet armies moving into Germany from the east. Best estimates say that around 35,000 people died
They are actually plasma weapons and our government especially the American government can control the weather. Its not climate change. Its climate control. You believe what you want. The truth is so out in the open only a complete fool couldn't see it
I remember seeing part of that smoke cloud (10:12) before midday from the suburb where I live in Pearce behind Mt Taylor when i was out walking my dog. Later around 3pm during the height of the firestorm, to the southwest of the mountain i saw a dark greyish cloud and several flashes together with a roaring noise similar to a tornado...I thought the flashes may have been an explosion from a substation/powerlines or something. Not long after a helicopter was flying low over the suburb. The sky started turning red. Half an hour later the mountain was engulfed in flames. There was a convoy of fire trucks from NSW with lights and sirens heading up the street to the houses that were close to the mountain.
Experiencing conditions like this firsthand is incredibly terrifying. I havent seen a Firenado, but i've seen a firestorm, where the sun just gets blotted out, and the wind starts picking up, and you hear a huge roaring, snapping sound of a wall of flame approaching.
In comparison, yes...it is. A normal wildfire burns at less than 400 °C . A monster like this is capable of melting aluminum (wich melts at 660,3 °C) like yesterday in Greece.
Well to be honest, dying in a fire tornado is a rather gnarly way to go. Sure beats choking on a ham sandwich, or suffering a heart attack while taking a dump.
When I fought fire for the USFS and USBLM in 1979 and 1980 we saw similar things. Also, in our studies of fire weather, firenado's were discussed. The Carr Fire near Redding CA sure looked like a firenado to me. I've seen one up close back in 1980. None of us were surprised as to be a firefighter we had to study fire weather.
Thanks for posting, it's absolutely fascinating. I'm from the UK and we don't now a lot about forest fires or bush fires etc. If anything happened here even remotely like this it would be a masacre.
The largest fire tornado ever seen in the US just happened in Northern California last week. When the wildfire near Redding started, the winds in the area were calm. But the hot summer record breaking temperatures reached 113 degrees f, and the rapidly combusting wildfire soon formed a large plume and then a thunder head cumulus cloud, and then a fire tornado that reached up to 18,000 feet elevation. The fire chief said that he has never seen anything like that in his over 20 years fighting wildfires. He said the fire spread faster and more erratically than anything he ever witnessed before. It would appear that this frightening phenomena will be an increasingly common nightmare going forward due to climate change - with the hotter temperatures and drier drought-damaged vegetation creating the conditions for super fire storms like this.
That's not the same type of fire tornado that's happening in this video. That's called a fire whirl but people incorrectly call it a fire tornado. A fire tornado comes down from a supercell thunderstorm that was created from smoke condensing in the troposphere. The fire tornado in the video actually has no fire in it. It is like a classic tornado. So essentially the fire is creating ash and smoke that then creates its own weather system. A fire whirl is just a spin of fire within the actual fire. Much more basic than this video.
During the London blitz there was a particularly savage firebombing that produced a firestorm and, in a couple of witness accounts, there were fire tornadoes. Not to mention firebombings elsewhere during the war. I guess they never thought that they would occur from a natural weather event.
"Fire Tornadoes don't exist... according to literature". Yet they have been documented as early as the 1950's and were discussed in Bushfires in Australia (Luke and McArthur).
Even today thats simply baffling. All these ground breaking fire behaviours created supercell thunderstorms of the intensity mainly seen in the US and having lived in Canberra 15 years I've never seen a supercell that was that strong
I lived south of mount arawang less than 1km from where the fire tornado went. While i didnt see it i can tell you the roar was nothing like i have ever heard.
Yes it can! If u watch into the storm it haves a fire Tornado in it and also haves like a tornado over 2miles wide and winds over 300mph. ( it's a movie )
There might have just been another occurrence of this kind of fire in Canada. some aftermath footage is peculiar. The one thing ruling(and the likely cause) is the fact Canada is cold, and there are gas lines everywhere(that could explode and also blow apart buildings, toss cars, and flatten trees). However at the time there was also a large PyroThunderstorm and dozens of lightning strikes and a giant smoke cloud similar if not larger than the one at the 10:15 mark
Fire tornadoes are not unknown, they simply haven't been able to be documented in such a scientific way. Here say and 2nd hand documenting was the past experience...
Could you imagine being hit by a F1+ tornado that's a few hundred to a thousand degrees? Then you consider how the flames would swirl around at 80+ mph that can rip houses apart exposing people to the truly horrifying death coming their way
Cocos fire (San Marcos, California 2014) possible Fire channeling 9:45. Also the Poinsettia fire (Carlsbad, California 2014) Fire tornado in a non-seasonal Santa Anna event. Although the fire tornado was reported to form from the ground up, unlike reported here. Both US and Austrailia experienced extreme temperatures and high winds.
I was waiting to see if any trees were snapped off above the ground , clear indicator of tornado damage. Usually trees are twisted off 15 to twenty feet above the ground but this is a different phenomenon and simaler damage with variations compared to normal tornadoes are understandable.
well, this explains my feeling that one of the houses I found a mulch fire going on the Tuesday afterwards (in Colhoun st Kambah, off behind the big tree to the right of the tornado) had more burned trees in the backyard than holes they came out of . . . . or to quote my now 28 year old son . . Armageddon is here, now. we were under that . . . stuff.
So that was the day when was super super super super hot outside that’s when the fire tornado happened oh yeah I forgot I saw a fire tornado near me yeah
Has anyone seen the footage on the Portugal bush fire and the recent US fires they are reporting the same tornado and vicious fires? Does anyone know if there were any reports of blue bolts of lightning or similar blue glows like power substations when the buzz out? It may be an idea for someone in relation to this fore to pay great attention to worldwide bushfires as there just may be some patterns in observations. The blue electrical or lighting bolts seem the big thing to ask about but the tornado is also present as well as trees burning from the inside out. Also talked about was calm weather then winds from nowhere!
You may want to do some research into fire science, extreme fire behavior and world wide fire history. Knowing the extreme fire behaviors that have taken place decades ago is incredibly important as it can then tell you if the extreme fire behavior that you observe is typical for an extreme wind driven fire. The winds did not start out of no where. We were already under red flag conditions for strong diablo winds with low RH. Trees burning from the inside out is actually quite common for wildland fires. Blue flashes are powerlines arcing in the wind, power lines down on the ground, transformers exploding, etc... Research.
I'm late to the party here but some basic research would answer all your questions. Original fire started weeks ago in bushland from lightening strike. There are no substations in the middle of nowhere. Gums trees burn outside in, the heavy bark goes first. But they have a habit of burning internally. So even if the outside is out they burn internally for upto weeks. Leading to flare ups. The ACT is surrounded by a lot of pine trees as well. When pine trees burn the sap boils giving them a tendency to explode into flames as seen in the US fires. Plus being a softwood they burn very quickly and easily.
+Dave LaBelle Tornadoes are unique to North America, but bushfires are unique to Australia. It just so happens that both disasters happen on both continents.
D Rainer Well no, people associate tornadoes with the US because of Tornado Alley, but people know that bushfires are extremely prone to Australia as bushfires are part of the Australian climate. When you think of tornadoes, where do you think of?? And when you think of droughts and bushfires, where do you think of? That's what I'm saying. I know they happen in both countries, it's just that tornadoes are more prone in America and bushfires are more prone in Australia due to Australia's very dry climate.
No peshtigo fire 1871. That was USA worst fire ever. People were turned into ashes and a fire tornado was spotted into the city destroying everything in its path. Also mysterious fire baloons. Strange orbs of fire flying around incenerating everything they touch.
Here's an inquiry: If we have weather forecasting that can estimate the weather at least a week ahead, surely they would have known that there were hot and dry days ahead, with obviously the 18th turning up the heat. Surely days before when the fire was "controllable", they could have done something instead of waiting for the fire to come to them. Therefore, if they had known that catastrophic fire danger was coming in the days ahead, how come it wasn't until the actual day when the fire hit when action was taken. I know it was difficult to access the fire with trucks, but helicopters could have water-bombed the fire in its early days, when it was controllable. Just a thought.
That's assuming they had the resources and weren't already trying to. 1.Controllable doesn't mean extinguishable. Normally, in Australia, the sheer amount of fire that sweeps across the countryside each summer means the resources were likely being used elsewhere. It was really far from settlements when it started, so it probably wasn't of high priority. 2. And since fire are important to the Australian ecosystem, maybe they have wanted it to burn through much of the area to avoid having another fire spark around there at a less opportune time, as one probably would. 3. The sheer speed at which the fire began moving took everyone by surprise and no-one had EVER seen a fire tornado like that before. It was unheard of! Science didn't even know if it could happen!
There was a whole lot of forest in the Molongolo Valley district that the government had been wanting to clear so they could build a new suburb. The fire came through and wiped out this forest, and later two new suburbs Coombs and Wright popped up in that area. Just a thought.
The claim, such a thin was never documented before is wrong. It was documented repeatadly in WWII when all war parties had pretty much fun igniting the cities of the opponents into this kind of horrible firestorms... Things were documented well, and These documentation was used to increase effectivity. Close to the end of the war, when the Germans and Japans weren't able to do this any more, the efficiency became worst, resulting in the deadliest bombing ever - which were not the nuclear bombs, but the burning of Tokyo, causing way more than 100.000 lives in one night. But these are definitely rare high quality moving pictures of this horrible phenomenon.
+Lightningchase1973 By documented, they meant photographed or videoed. Those firestorms during the war were not tornados. A fire tornado is created when a fire gets so intense that it starts to develop its own weather system, sucking in air and forming a tornado. The firestorms in the war were large fire whirls, or just very high winds created by the fires drawing in air.
Exactly that "a fire gets so intense that it creates it's own (feeding) weather system, happened in the WWII. Wind-speeds of the rotation 200 kph+, enough to throw victims into the flames and destroy remnant buildings, spared by the bombing. These fires where even a lot more violent (!!!) than the forest fires. Indeed ts maybe the first proper video-documentation. There is a badass video documentation of a newer nice rotating firestorm (firetornado) 2013 - Tetlin Junction Ridge Fire. Ins some details you see trees being uprooted and sucked into the fire...
Lightningchase1973 The difference is that a tornado is connected to a cloud base above and the ground. The firestorms in the war were more akin to giant fire whirls since they didn't connect to a cloud base. They were columns of superheated air creating spin due to the city streets through which the air was being sucked.
Nah, really this place is great. I live in Canberra and love Australia in general. You're more likely to die in a car crash than die in a bush fire ahah
I will never forget this time. I had three kids under 3 and we were living in Chapman at the time. It was crazy scary
I was 5, I remember I was watching the wiggles in the afternoon, my parents had closed the blinds, but I opened them and the sky was black.
I remember seeing the fires in Tuggeranong down by pine island, I'll never forget that day.
@@toys7198 haha you got traumatised
I lived in Flynn my whole life, and when this was happening, red embers were flying through the air, and into my yard, all the way from the other side of Canberra... It was scary af
during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII, the concentration of the incendiaries created heat so intense that it started a firestorm. It sucked the oxygen out of the cellars where people had taken refuge. Smoldering coal emitted carbon monoxide asphyxiating more people. There are witness accounts of trees, furniture (and people) being sucked through the streets and into the center of the firestorm. The city was packed with refugees fleeing from the Soviet armies moving into Germany from the east. Best estimates say that around 35,000 people died
This is an actual fire tornado. The other videos you'll see with this label are actually just whirlwinds in a fire.
You mean tornado caugh on fire
Michael Garcia the wind not a regular tornado went into a fire the fire grew into a tornado push together and fire tornado
They are actually plasma weapons and our government especially the American government can control the weather. Its not climate change. Its climate control. You believe what you want. The truth is so out in the open only a complete fool couldn't see it
@@dylantyt6654 nope, we are not complete fool. Nobody asked.
I remember seeing part of that smoke cloud (10:12) before midday from the suburb where I live in Pearce behind Mt Taylor when i was out walking my dog. Later around 3pm during the height of the firestorm, to the southwest of the mountain i saw a dark greyish cloud and several flashes together with a roaring noise similar to a tornado...I thought the flashes may have been an explosion from a substation/powerlines or something. Not long after a helicopter was flying low over the suburb. The sky started turning red. Half an hour later the mountain was engulfed in flames. There was a convoy of fire trucks from NSW with lights and sirens heading up the street to the houses that were close to the mountain.
ATS T. There are too many anomalies seen in these fires to subscribe them to “natural phenomemona.” Check out Mental Boost channel.
ATS T. My parents were in Canberra when the fire happened
I was in kambah
Experiencing conditions like this firsthand is incredibly terrifying. I havent seen a Firenado, but i've seen a firestorm, where the sun just gets blotted out, and the wind starts picking up, and you hear a huge roaring, snapping sound of a wall of flame approaching.
1:01 "Holy shit."
crazyriders83 OML I feel bad for laughing at that but 😂😂😂
Hey... You don't Say
Quote: "much more savage than an ordinary fire-storm".
Not that an ordinary fire-storm is exactly ho-hum, mind you.
I read that line the exact time I heard it in the video. Woah...
+Arkadia Moon
Australians ;)
In comparison, yes...it is. A normal wildfire burns at less than 400 °C . A monster like this is capable of melting aluminum (wich melts at 660,3 °C) like yesterday in Greece.
Catalyst has become my source for cool videos and information ever since the Discovery Channel went downhill. Thank you so much, ABC!
Well to be honest, dying in a fire tornado is a rather gnarly way to go. Sure beats choking on a ham sandwich, or suffering a heart attack while taking a dump.
Try telling that to a portuguese...or greek...
Mama Cass and Elvis might disagree
How about having a heart attack while taking the dump resulting from a ham sandwich directly into a fire tornado?
@@PedroAfonso1967 what do you mean
hey man, I told you that in confidence! you're just never gonna let me live that one down, are you?
When I fought fire for the USFS and USBLM in 1979 and 1980 we saw similar things. Also, in our studies of fire weather, firenado's were discussed. The Carr Fire near Redding CA sure looked like a firenado to me. I've seen one up close back in 1980. None of us were surprised as to be a firefighter we had to study fire weather.
That's crazy! Fire tornadoes! New to me. Yikes!
6:40 I thought the sky was blue! NOPE it's red now!😂😂😂
Thanks for posting, it's absolutely fascinating. I'm from the UK and we don't now a lot about forest fires or bush fires etc. If anything happened here even remotely like this it would be a masacre.
You guys good with flooding? We hav tornado alarms in Oklahoma
A tornado in the uk seems very unlikely
@@davidarruda8400 They happen a fair bit, actually. The UK records the highest number of tornadoes per square kilometre of any country.
Who would win:
Several very detailed houses built with the best constructors around or a hot twirly thing.
This is so sad for people that died in this video.I feel sad for them and I’m sad for all the animals that are in the bush.
The largest fire tornado ever seen in the US just happened in Northern California last week. When the wildfire near Redding started, the winds in the area were calm. But the hot summer record breaking temperatures reached 113 degrees f, and the rapidly combusting wildfire soon formed a large plume and then a thunder head cumulus cloud, and then a fire tornado that reached up to 18,000 feet elevation. The fire chief said that he has never seen anything like that in his over 20 years fighting wildfires. He said the fire spread faster and more erratically than anything he ever witnessed before. It would appear that this frightening phenomena will be an increasingly common nightmare going forward due to climate change - with the hotter temperatures and drier drought-damaged vegetation creating the conditions for super fire storms like this.
That's not the same type of fire tornado that's happening in this video. That's called a fire whirl but people incorrectly call it a fire tornado. A fire tornado comes down from a supercell thunderstorm that was created from smoke condensing in the troposphere. The fire tornado in the video actually has no fire in it. It is like a classic tornado. So essentially the fire is creating ash and smoke that then creates its own weather system. A fire whirl is just a spin of fire within the actual fire. Much more basic than this video.
@@gregbrophy5781 What should we do chicken little?
Burn acreage today is a tiny fraction of what it used to be just a hundred years ago .
...only in Australia...
1WildlandFirefighter yeah that true but there is something about the bushfires in Australia that make them the fiercest fires in the world
Not to mention eucalyptus trees explode in bushfires but yes you guys do have fierce bushfires as well
1WildlandFirefighter oiji
Cosmo Illenberger fuckin' straya
Wait only Australia?
The day Mother Nature said, "A wildfire just isn't enough, I'll just throw a tornado in there for good measure. Aussies are tough. Have at it fellas."
During the London blitz there was a particularly savage firebombing that produced a firestorm and, in a couple of witness accounts, there were fire tornadoes. Not to mention firebombings elsewhere during the war. I guess they never thought that they would occur from a natural weather event.
"Fire Tornadoes don't exist... according to literature".
Yet they have been documented as early as the 1950's and were discussed in Bushfires in Australia (Luke and McArthur).
+Luis Barrios Not to mention being documented in the western US as far back as the 1920's.
+Luis Barrios These are "Fire whirls" not legitimate convective tornadoes.
Such as a firenado that lofted a home 150ft in the air and killed two people in SoCal 1926?
They’ve been documented since 1871 and earlier.
On that same day at Chipping Norton Lake in western Sydney a small tornado/waterspout crossed over Chipping Norton Lake.
Even today thats simply baffling. All these ground breaking fire behaviours created supercell thunderstorms of the intensity mainly seen in the US and having lived in Canberra 15 years I've never seen a supercell that was that strong
I lived south of mount arawang less than 1km from where the fire tornado went. While i didnt see it i can tell you the roar was nothing like i have ever heard.
Hell on steroids
Axel Cordova more like hell -90
Australia really wants to kill people
Well now i know what hell looks like.
Kinda annoying people can't tell the difference between fire tornado and fire whirl. Only good source on real fire tornadoes I've found in a while.
these are storms of destruction and they are scary
can't underestimate wild fires anymore
I cant believe this could be possible :(
Yes it can! If u watch into the storm it haves a fire Tornado in it and also haves like a tornado over 2miles wide and winds over 300mph. ( it's a movie )
I live in tornado ally.
I have yet to hear one of these in the States. That thing must be fucking scary
2018 and 2020 have had these occur in California
look at what was done to Dresden in '45, same dynamics
Nope. Not the same at all. Those whirls of fire in the Dresden fires grew from the ground up.
There might have just been another occurrence of this kind of fire in Canada. some aftermath footage is peculiar. The one thing ruling(and the likely cause) is the fact Canada is cold, and there are gas lines everywhere(that could explode and also blow apart buildings, toss cars, and flatten trees). However at the time there was also a large PyroThunderstorm and dozens of lightning strikes and a giant smoke cloud similar if not larger than the one at the 10:15 mark
4:21 tell me what you think that looks like...
tbh i kinda pictured a severed SpongeBob arm.
Tornados can turn into fire tornados it's hell
Read Stephen Pynes A History of Fire in Australia, he talks about this stuff in the historical record going back centuries
Fire tornadoes are not unknown, they simply haven't been able to be documented in such a scientific way. Here say and 2nd hand documenting was the past experience...
These fires didn't happen before 1788. The aboriginal people didn't allow fuel loads to get like this.
Based on the damage, it looks like an F2 or F3, maybe even a mid level F4.
Kids. We're going to Hell's Kitchen.
God bless them all.
Holy crap that’s scary luckily I live where none of that freaking stuff happens at.
Nobody is immune
@@donnielee8556 👂👂👂👂👏👏👏👏
@@donnielee8556 i live on the ocean
Could you imagine being hit by a F1+ tornado that's a few hundred to a thousand degrees? Then you consider how the flames would swirl around at 80+ mph that can rip houses apart exposing people to the truly horrifying death coming their way
I’m in 2020 and I’m 10 feeling I’m gonna die 😭😭😭 PLEASE SAVE CANBERRA
What is that strongest fire nado or storm
Firenado FTW
It was something I've never seen before it was worse then hell
Wow look how nice the fire made the land. It needed that. All these nice nutrients for the soil! To bad the houses were in the way.
go go go go dont wanna get burned by the firnado!
my dumbass: "wow I never knew there was such a big fire in D.C."
Cocos fire (San Marcos, California 2014) possible Fire channeling 9:45. Also the Poinsettia fire (Carlsbad, California 2014) Fire tornado in a non-seasonal Santa Anna event. Although the fire tornado was reported to form from the ground up, unlike reported here. Both US and Austrailia experienced extreme temperatures and high winds.
I don't think the rest of the world realise how bad we get bush fires :(
Don't they have medicine for that?
Brooke Forrest OMG BUSH FIRES THATS JUST SO FUNNY OMG XD LOL
No! I do and that's why I am staying the hell out of Australia.
Trust me, we know...
What wouldn't I give to see a fire tornado...
"shit" isn't an explicit word any more? Maybe cos the guy said "holy".
straya
Words are just a collection of phonemes. No need to get your panties in a bunch over certain ones.
thx for sharing
I was waiting to see if any trees were snapped off above the ground , clear indicator of tornado damage. Usually trees are twisted off 15 to twenty feet above the ground but this is a different phenomenon and simaler damage with variations compared to normal tornadoes are understandable.
This is actually explained by science.
well, this explains my feeling that one of the houses I found a mulch fire going on the Tuesday afterwards (in Colhoun st Kambah, off behind the big tree to the right of the tornado) had more burned trees in the backyard than holes they came out of . . . . or to quote my now 28 year old son . . Armageddon is here, now. we were under that . . . stuff.
My family lived through that hell
So that was the day when was super super super super hot outside that’s when the fire tornado happened oh yeah I forgot I saw a fire tornado near me yeah
Holy mackerel
Where was captain planet.
Makes a good BF1 Picture with specks of fire
You have to be Australian to fully understand... The amount of natural disasters here...
7 Years Later:
THE WHOLE CITY'S ON FIRE!
It was and I wasn't even a year old yet
hey, at least that tornado wasn't carrying a car
Has anyone seen the footage on the Portugal bush fire and the recent US fires they are reporting the same tornado and vicious fires? Does anyone know if there were any reports of blue bolts of lightning or similar blue glows like power substations when the buzz out? It may be an idea for someone in relation to this fore to pay great attention to worldwide bushfires as there just may be some patterns in observations. The blue electrical or lighting bolts seem the big thing to ask about but the tornado is also present as well as trees burning from the inside out. Also talked about was calm weather then winds from nowhere!
You may want to do some research into fire science, extreme fire behavior and world wide fire history.
Knowing the extreme fire behaviors that have taken place decades ago is incredibly important as it can then tell you if the extreme fire behavior that you observe is typical for an extreme wind driven fire.
The winds did not start out of no where. We were already under red flag conditions for strong diablo winds with low RH.
Trees burning from the inside out is actually quite common for wildland fires.
Blue flashes are powerlines arcing in the wind, power lines down on the ground, transformers exploding, etc...
Research.
I'm late to the party here but some basic research would answer all your questions.
Original fire started weeks ago in bushland from lightening strike.
There are no substations in the middle of nowhere.
Gums trees burn outside in, the heavy bark goes first. But they have a habit of burning internally. So even if the outside is out they burn internally for upto weeks. Leading to flare ups.
The ACT is surrounded by a lot of pine trees as well. When pine trees burn the sap boils giving them a tendency to explode into flames as seen in the US fires. Plus being a softwood they burn very quickly and easily.
and in 2020 the nightmare starts again 🥺
Im not sure how true it is but aparently in ww2 this happened in air raids
I feel bad for Rick McRae😪😪😪😪
Can’t wait for this to happen in CO in 2060
Beware the whirlwind within the firestorm.
Man, I thought that tornadoes were uniquely North American. I can see that I was BIG TIME WRONG.
+Dave LaBelle Tornadoes are unique to North America, but bushfires are unique to Australia. It just so happens that both disasters happen on both continents.
+Brandan Lee doesn't that make them not unique?
D Rainer Well no, people associate tornadoes with the US because of Tornado Alley, but people know that bushfires are extremely prone to Australia as bushfires are part of the Australian climate. When you think of tornadoes, where do you think of?? And when you think of droughts and bushfires, where do you think of?
That's what I'm saying. I know they happen in both countries, it's just that tornadoes are more prone in America and bushfires are more prone in Australia due to Australia's very dry climate.
They got caught up in a wizard battle wtf
just blame climate change, that way there is no accountability for government.
This isn't the first ever recorded..... What about the one in Japan in 1923?
Japan had two in 1945.
No peshtigo fire 1871. That was USA worst fire ever. People were turned into ashes and a fire tornado was spotted into the city destroying everything in its path. Also mysterious fire baloons. Strange orbs of fire flying around incenerating everything they touch.
I remember my parents house was nearly hit from this I’m pretty sure.
Here's an inquiry: If we have weather forecasting that can estimate the weather at least a week ahead, surely they would have known that there were hot and dry days ahead, with obviously the 18th turning up the heat. Surely days before when the fire was "controllable", they could have done something instead of waiting for the fire to come to them. Therefore, if they had known that catastrophic fire danger was coming in the days ahead, how come it wasn't until the actual day when the fire hit when action was taken.
I know it was difficult to access the fire with trucks, but helicopters could have water-bombed the fire in its early days, when it was controllable.
Just a thought.
That's assuming they had the resources and weren't already trying to.
1.Controllable doesn't mean extinguishable. Normally, in Australia, the sheer amount of fire that sweeps across the countryside each summer means the resources were likely being used elsewhere. It was really far from settlements when it started, so it probably wasn't of high priority.
2. And since fire are important to the Australian ecosystem, maybe they have wanted it to burn through much of the area to avoid having another fire spark around there at a less opportune time, as one probably would.
3. The sheer speed at which the fire began moving took everyone by surprise and no-one had EVER seen a fire tornado like that before. It was unheard of! Science didn't even know if it could happen!
Brandan Lee Armchair quarterback.
There was a whole lot of forest in the Molongolo Valley district that the government had been wanting to clear so they could build a new suburb. The fire came through and wiped out this forest, and later two new suburbs Coombs and Wright popped up in that area. Just a thought.
April Mills Makes you think that governments may not be as innocent as you think.
I was evacuated as well
I was there
I was too :) Incredible isn't it - watching this I keep asking myself, how did we survive?
Damn nature, you scary. What they said about pine trees is wrong. An EF0-EF1 tornado snapped off pine trees in my town.
Crisis City anyone?
is this bad news that I live in America where there are lots of tornados please answer
We don't have fire tornado
it looks like a big tornados was there in the city i think they all might be okay
Devastating and awesome, devastatingly awesome?
So cool
Err not if you were there at the time Zachary. It was bloody scary.
Woah that’s huge
The claim, such a thin was never documented before is wrong. It was documented repeatadly in WWII when all war parties had pretty much fun igniting the cities of the opponents into this kind of horrible firestorms... Things were documented well, and These documentation was used to increase effectivity. Close to the end of the war, when the Germans and Japans weren't able to do this any more, the efficiency became worst, resulting in the deadliest bombing ever - which were not the nuclear bombs, but the burning of Tokyo, causing way more than 100.000 lives in one night. But these are definitely rare high quality moving pictures of this horrible phenomenon.
+Lightningchase1973 By documented, they meant photographed or videoed. Those firestorms during the war were not tornados. A fire tornado is created when a fire gets so intense that it starts to develop its own weather system, sucking in air and forming a tornado. The firestorms in the war were large fire whirls, or just very high winds created by the fires drawing in air.
Exactly that "a fire gets so intense that it creates it's own (feeding) weather system, happened in the WWII. Wind-speeds of the rotation 200 kph+, enough to throw victims into the flames and destroy remnant buildings, spared by the bombing. These fires where even a lot more violent (!!!) than the forest fires. Indeed ts maybe the first proper video-documentation. There is a badass video documentation of a newer nice rotating firestorm (firetornado) 2013 - Tetlin Junction Ridge Fire. Ins some details you see trees being uprooted and sucked into the fire...
Lightningchase1973 The difference is that a tornado is connected to a cloud base above and the ground. The firestorms in the war were more akin to giant fire whirls since they didn't connect to a cloud base. They were columns of superheated air creating spin due to the city streets through which the air was being sucked.
It was the first natural not manmade fire tornado documented
They also had them in California in 1926.
I'm happy that we don't have tornados here lol I would be crying my eyes out😣
I like your video
HOLY FIRE!!!
That thing was cool
Wouldn't even make a decent Sydney barbecue.
Oh my god tornados
Oh my GOD
Then why are you running towards it?
But then the Fire Nation attacked
Weapons of mother nature, unbeatable. In the devils earth, she got angry.
Is this real
RUN!!
Yeap...Australia is out of my visiting list!!!! 😱
Nah, really this place is great. I live in Canberra and love Australia in general. You're more likely to die in a car crash than die in a bush fire ahah
Poor animals and insects.
I live in canberra but I wasn't alive then
Haha fuckin kid
jorja.lilyyy same
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