The York Fire has burned more than 80,000 acres near the California-Nevada border, with crews battling multiple fire whirls.
A fire whirl — sometimes called a fire tornado — is a "spinning column of fire" that forms when intense heat and turbulent winds combine, according to the National Park Service.Smoke from the York fire burning in the Mojave Desert on the California-Nevada border caused flight delays at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
The whirls require high temperatures to form. In Searchlight, Nevada — an unincorporated area about 12 miles from the California border where the fire burned — Monday’s high was 100 degrees Fahrenheit , according to the National Weather Service. Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, said it could take the pinyon-juniper woodlands 200 to 300 years to become "a functional community again," while the blackbrush scrub and Joshua trees are unlikely to regrow after this catastrophic blaze, which erupted without human intervention.Even more, deer and bighorn sheep could become trapped by the flames, she said.
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