Fire Tornado / Fire Devil video near Alice Springs

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Fire Tornado / Fire Devil video near Alice Springs

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Not sure whether this was shot yesterday or the previous Tuesday, but some amazing and fairly rare footage nonetheless...



The Daily Mail also has some good stills, etc with this story.
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Re: Fire Tornado / Fire Devil video near Alice Springs

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Very nice ! _b
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Fascinating - thankyou Nev.
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Raw footage : Outback FIRE Tornado

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September 11 2012, Mount Conner, Australia.
This is absolutely incredible. Turn the volume up loud to really experience this.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f7f_1348108247