Two new wildfires exploded in Central and Northern California Monday, prompting evacuations, including areas outside Fresno, California's most populous inland city.

Thousands of homes are under evacuation orders and warnings because of wildfires in Northern California wine country and in central Oregon.

A sweltering heat wave lingering across the West has prompted extreme heat warnings and watches for portions of the Desert Southwest, California, Washington, and Oregon. Several high-temperature records were broken in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington recently,