[Excerpted from text] Whirlwinds occasionally have been reported occurring within various types of fires. Accounts sufficiently detailed to give the reader a definite idea of what the reporter had actually seen are rare. Since the fire-whirlwind is a phenomenon of considerable importance to fire fighters, I will attempt to describe one which was observed by Robert S. Stevens, Forester, Oregon State Board of Forestry, and myself at 2 p.m., August 23, 1951, on the Vincent Creek Fire in southwest Oregon. Figure 1 portrays the spectacular wind conditions. [Reprinted in 2003 in Fire Management Today, v. 63, no. 3, pages 54-55.]

[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]