Smoking, swirling 'ash devil' sweeps through California wildfire
 

Smoking, swirling 'ash devil' sweeps through California wildfire
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The Grade Fire blazing across the **rthern edge of California briefly spun up a spectacularly odd phe**me**n k**wn as an "ash devil" on Thursday. Fortunately this ***** tornado, of sorts, was caught on camera.

The ash devil, which is closely related to "fire whirls," formed in Yreka, California began pulling in burnt ashes and debris from the fire as it spun across the fire area. It was large e**ugh that several photos of the towering tornado-like swirl could be captured, albeit mainly by trained professionals already fighting the vicinity.

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