that's what you saw from the plane, the clouds from the heat rising quickly. but when you have heat at the ground and the fire at the ground, the air around it rushes in to fill in the vacuum. that's helping to create the fire nados as they spin around they whipping up wind causing winds to increase. we saw the red flag warning in effect. that's one of the factors. the other thing this these fire nados is do is create more fires. how? when you have a regular tornado you throw debris like the pieces of houses or trees around. when you have a fire nado we are talking about the embers from the fire are then being spread out and spewed all over causing new fires. ana it's a situation that's not getting better any time soon because we are talking about more and more days of triple digit heat and, again, the dry conditions that existed before. those high temperatures dry out the dead vegetation around. and all of the brush making them