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Hawaii 'Fire Tornado' Lights Up Big Island (VIDEO)

First Posted: 08/28/10 12:11 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:30 PM ET

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On Wednesday, video surfaced of an eerie 'fire tornado' that sent flames spinning high into the sky in Brazil (WATCH HERE).

Now, CNN brings us a strikingly similar clip of a 'fire tornado' in Hawaii.

According to KITV, the daunting spectacle was a product of a brush fire that firefighters were attempting to contain near the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island on Sunday. The blaze claimed at least 1,400 acres.

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On Wednesday, video surfaced of an eerie 'fire tornado' that sent flames spinning high into the sky in Brazil (WATCH HERE). Now, CNN brings us a strikingly similar clip of a 'fire tornado' in Hawaii.
On Wednesday, video surfaced of an eerie 'fire tornado' that sent flames spinning high into the sky in Brazil (WATCH HERE). Now, CNN brings us a strikingly similar clip of a 'fire tornado' in Hawaii.
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lazercat2008
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10:20 AM on 08/31/2010
It's not he normal weather pattern!

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Redgriffin
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01:16 PM on 08/30/2010
Where I come from we call it a fire storm. In California you see them all the time during big brush fire season they just drop water on it to put it out.
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RavenWest
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10:50 AM on 08/30/2010
Apparently this happens all the time with brush fire. Seems rather believable to me.
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anchises868
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10:35 AM on 08/30/2010
wicked...
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afro diziac
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09:14 AM on 08/30/2010
and now, the end is near...

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3990226457/
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kelbell
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05:34 AM on 08/30/2010
This blows my experience w/ lighting snow out of the water.....
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JulieDole
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03:29 AM on 08/30/2010
We see these at burning man every year.
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pinkeyelemonade
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02:25 AM on 08/30/2010
IT'S A SIGN FROM GOD!!!
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CatHead
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11:58 PM on 08/29/2010
It's not unbelievable. It's spectacular.
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CRHsports
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11:14 PM on 08/29/2010
"With our powers combined...."

ooh man, Heart is at another protest so he can get married....no Captain Planet this time....
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10:40 PM on 08/29/2010
I have never seen that before. Can someone explain it to me? Does the fire create the wind or does the wind whip up the fire???????
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01:04 PM on 08/30/2010
Deforestation
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10:02 PM on 08/29/2010
2nd time I've looked at this...
That is one WICKED Mother.
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Chachooga
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09:54 PM on 08/29/2010
Wow that was cool....first time I've ever scene something like that.
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09:33 PM on 08/29/2010
The Mayans probably predicted all of this stuff.
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Earl Davis
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07:02 PM on 08/29/2010
Can't decide which movie I thought of first. The Ten Commandments, Indiana Jones, or Twister...
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eknirb
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07:47 PM on 08/29/2010
definitely Ten Commandments. Charleton Heston has all his peeps blasting thru the river bed, then WHAMMO comes the fire tornado and Yul Brunner gets screwed once again. Classic.
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Earl Davis
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09:25 PM on 08/29/2010
Yeah, good call. I had forgotten all about that. Yul got pwned. LOL.
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02:27 AM on 08/30/2010
At least Bill Paxton's dry delivery was nowhere nearby to make it less awesome.
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Earl Davis
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03:00 AM on 08/30/2010
LOL.
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