Four homes have been destroyed by a wildfire sweeping through central Oregon, where thousands of residents remained under evacuation orders.

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,

Thousands of homes are under evacuation orders, including about 4,000 around Sisters, Oregon, because of the growing Flat fire.