A firefighter who got caught in the middle of that rare tornado in California says he’s lucky to be alive and says the first thing he thought about was his weeks-old baby girl.

UPDATED: March 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM PDT A strong storm moving through the region brought debris flows, downed wires and even a rare tornado to parts of Southern California on Thursday.

California fire tornados formed as strong winds whipped up flames in the Pacific Palisades wildfires. The tornado was spotted on Friday night (10 January) as the wildfires blazed through the San ...

Rare tornado in Pico Rivera damages homes, cars, trees Crews work to remove a large pine tree from the 9500 block of Glencannon Drive in Pico Rivera on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

In 2018, a fire tornado the size of three football fields killed a firefighter as it exploded in what already was a vast and devastating wildfire near near Redding, about 250 miles north of San ...

A rare tornado in Oxnard damaged a mobile home park during a day of severe weather in Southern California, the National Weather Service said Friday. The powerful winds roared at about 3:30 p.m ...

In 2018, a fire tornado the size of three football fields killed a firefighter as it exploded in what already was a vast and devastating wildfire near Redding, about 250 miles (400 kilometers ...

An apparent tornado touched down in a small Northern California city Saturday, flipping cars, causing significant damage and sending several people to the hospital.