Wildfires in California wine country and central Oregon are expanding, prompting hundreds of evacuations. Wildfires in California wine country and Central Oregon grew overnight, prompting hundreds of evacuations as firefighters worked Sunday to try to contain the blazes amid dry, hot weather.

Ten structures — including four homes — have been destroyed by a wildfire sweeping through central Oregon as thousands of homes in the state and in Northern California wine country remained under evacuation orders Monday.

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,