“That’s right, fire tornadoes in California and lightning bolts are hitting in California up by San Francisco, creating eight wildfires.
“So you’ve got lightning bolts hitting the ground, causing wildfires, and then the wildfires are spinning off fire tornadoes.”
However, firenadoes or fire whirls frequently occur in nature.
According to the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Reno, they are an “extreme weather phenomenon that occur with rotating fire columns.”
source: express.co.uk