Northamptonshire Fire Service buys wildfire kit

Northamptonshire Fire Service buys wildfire kit

As the number of incidents puts pressure on resources, a fire service buys gear for wildfires and floods.

Watch moment Utah wildfire turns into huge fire vortex

Watch the moment a huge blaze in Utah turned into a gigantic fire vortex on Saturday (12 July). Footage captured by a firefighter shows the unusual weather phenomenon which the US Forest Service describes as a “spinning vortex column of ascending hot air and gases rising from a fire and carrying aloft smoke, debris and flame”. According to the state's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), nobody was injured in the blaze during the Deer Creek Fire, wh…