Look, up in the sky. It’s a fire. No, it’s a tornado. Apparently, it can be both. On Saturday, firefighters working to contain the Deer Creek Fire in southeast Utah witnessed a rare occurrence ...

Are you scared of fires or tornadoes? Buckle up, because Utah just combined them. The fire-induced funnel was Utah’s 10th recorded EF2 tornado, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist.

That’s mostly down to bad luck—although Oklahoma City area might as well be the buckle of the tornado belt, as Alexis Madrigal points out in the Atlantic, the chances of actually being hit by ...