Natural Disasters
Can Scientists Predict Fire Tornadoes?
Inside the effort to understand wildfire season’s scariest phenomena
Stories by Jason M. Forthofer
Jason M. Forthofer is a firefighter and mechanical engineer at the U.S. Forest Service's Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Montana. His research involves field, laboratory and computational studies of heat transfer and fluid flow related to wildland fires. Credit: Nick Higgins
