Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the LA area.

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A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the ... Video footage shows the tall, thin inferno surrounded by a cloud of smoke swirling on a hillside inside the Pacific Palisades blaze ...

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A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the ... combines with conditions in the atmosphere to produce clouds of smoke that reach 20,000 to 40,000 feet, Swain said.