Thousands flee as wildfire rages through northern California

Firefighters try to stop flames from the Mill Fire spreading on a property (Hung T Vu/The Record Searchlight/AP)

Thousands of people remain under evacuation orders after a wind-whipped wildfire raged through rural northern California.

A number of people were injured when the fire that began on Friday afternoon on or near a wood products plant quickly blew into a neighbourhood on the northern edge of Weed, but then carried the flames away from the small city.