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In Bardstown, Kentucky, a fire department helicopter flies over woodland and records an apocalyptic scene: an inferno raging on the surface of a fresh water lake. The flames are drawn into the lake’s center and form a spinning pillar of flame known to firefighters as a fire devil. Leaping taller than the surrounding trees, the swirling inferno moves around the lake’s surface; shrinking and then growing again like some kind of living being. Fire experts are stunned that this fire devil has seemingly formed over water: they usually erupt on dry land when hot air from a fire rises and begins spinning; creating a vortex which then sucks in more ash and flammable debris from the ground. But how is this fire devil thriving on water which ordinarily would douse the flames? Read More Science Channel
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