Colorado firefighter captures rare 'firenado' in Beaver Creek blaze
 

Colorado firefighter captures rare 'firenado' in Beaver Creek blaze
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A wildfire in **rthern Colorado produced a firenado earlier this week, sending a wiry column of orange and yellow flames shooting into the sky.

The fire department in Beaver Creek, Colorado, captured the rare and fleeting *“fire whirl” on Sunday and posted the video to its Facebook page.




Firenados are formed when hot, dry air rises quickly from the ground and shapes itself into vertical columns, which swirl into a vortex and pick up burning debris, ash and hot gasses.

A larger firenado broke out in Southern California in June as a wildfire spread to over 4,000 acres in Santa Barbara County.

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