This picture is from a National Geographic article titled “Fire Tornado Pictures.”

I repeat: Fire. Tornado.

Forthofer studies fire tornadoes with the aim of protecting firefighters. “If we can identify conditions that are conducive to fire whirls, that would be a heads-up for firefighters, because there have been some [people] that have been burned by them,” he said.

Fire tornadoes are dangerous? I never would have thought.