Fire «Carr», which began on July 26, near Redding (CA), has reached incredible proportions. Yesterday, August 2, residents of the city witnessed the birth of a fiery tornado and its destructive power.
Today, the Internet is full of videos and comments of witnesses. The people of Redding were alerted to the fact that the fire was approaching the city, and many chose to leave the danger zone. However, no one expected that the energy of the fire element will take this form. In Lake Keswick Estates has flown the fiery tornado.
Scientists and emergency personnel were shocked by what they saw. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist from the University of southern California, called firestorm historic event. And meteorologist Hannah Chandler said that what he saw exceeded all possible expectations.
Under the influence of atmospheric pressure, the flame and the wind merged into a huge fire spiral. Usually tornadoes occur during and storms and floods, when the pillars spin dust and water. Usually, such vortices «live» not more than a few minutes. Fire tornado in Redding raged over the earth for more than an hour, destroying houses and burning the uprooted trees. The scale of the damage caused by firestorm, is yet to be established Federal Agency of emergency management (FEMA).
No, this is not a tornado. The Carr Fire in Shasta County created this updraft rotation. #CarrFire #California pic.twitter.com/CVvcafJBGK
— ABC10 (@ABC10) July 27, 2018
California authorities said that the incident in Redding showed how dangerous the effects of global warming. Every year the temperature is getting higher, and the fires bigger.
As if a tornado on itself isn’t bad enough, why not a FIRENADO
To date, the «fire Carr» engulfed an area of 518 km2. The consequences were 6 deaths, more than 1 thousand destroyed houses, burned about 20 enterprises. In extinguishing involved about 13 thousand firefighters. Today it became known that Australia and New Zealand will be sent to the disaster area 146 specialists.
