Sentence examples for fire-whirl from inspiring English sources

The photo's caption reads: The fire-whirl generator inside the Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula.

Internal fire whirls are much more dangerous and destructive than non-whirling fires in the shaft and deserve more attention.

As they expected, a fire whirl about two feet high formed with a typical yellow and orange flame.

A spill from the Jim Beam factory on a pond in Kentucky caught fire in 2003, and a fire whirl formed spontaneously.

"A fire whirl can sustain itself and hop right over fire lines," said Larry Van Bussum, the staff meteorologist at the National Interagency Fire Center.

Television footage captured a fire tornado, more accurately known as a fire whirl, a phenomenon in which flames and gusts combine to form whirling eddies.

A small blue flame, circulating in a vortex called a fire whirl, could become an important tool in oil spill cleanup, according to the scientists who created it.

Huahua Xiao, an assistant research scientist, who conducted experiments on fire whirls along with Michael J. Gollner and Elaine S. Oran, said, "We wanted to harness the power of fire whirls for good".

So researchers have studied fire whirls with an eye to stopping or preventing them.

Fire whirls, colloquially called firenadoes, look like tornadoes or wind devils, and they burn hotter than many other fires.

The tornado-like fire whirls are created when intense heat combines with strong winds to create a spinning vortice of flame.