Firenado forms as Australian wildfires burn

Fire tornadoes formed Thursday as wildfires continue to rage in Australia, eyewitness video shows.

Brenton Davis, who shot video of one of the tornadoes, said in a Facebook post that it had formed on the north coast of Kangaroo Island, which sits off the coast of south-central Australia.

"We had a fair few [fire tornadoes] today and it wasn't even a hot day," Davis said.

More than 200 fires were burning across the country, officials said Friday, and warnings of extreme danger to come prompted mass evacuations. Traffic was gridlocked as people fled and firefighters escorted convoys of evacuees as fires threatened to close roads. Navy ships were called in to pluck hundreds of people stranded on beaches.

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