<p>Wind whipped fire from a blaze at a plastics factory in Derbyshire, England, into a tornado-like whirl on August 6 as firefighters worked to extinguish the flames.</p><p>Fire crews from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire responded to the fire at the Ravensbourn factory on Occupation Lane in Swadlincote. Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said</a> the fire involved thousands of stacked plastic pallets and “spread to a small site building and a number of fork-lift trucks.”</p><p>This footage was shared by Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service, who wrote that a ‘firenado’ is created “as cool air enters the top of the hot air causing a swirl similar to how a tornado is formed.”</p><p>The fire sent dark plumes of smoke into the sky which spread as far as Nottingham, about 20 miles north-east of the factory, the BBC reported</a>. Credit: Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service via Storyful</p><br />
