Remote towns evacuated as California battles wildfires and heatwave

Embers fly from a tree stump as the Creek Fire burns in the Cascadel Woods neighbourhood of Mariposa County, California (Noah Berger/AP)

Evacuation orders have been expanded to more mountain communities in California as a huge wildfire churned through the Sierra National Forest.

It was one of dozens of blazes crews battled during a heatwave that shattered records across the state.