Wildfires ignited over the weekend burned hundreds of acres of land in California and Utah, prompting evacuation orders as they torched homes, threatened nearby communities and, in Salt Lake City, burned near the state capitol. The fires roared across the West amid an unrelenting stretch of intense heat that’s expected to continue through the week. The National Weather Service has issued heat warnings and advisories from southern California to Washington, Idaho and Wyoming as triple digit temperatures are expected across multiple states. In Southern California, the so-called Hawarden Fire, just four miles south of downtown Riverside, began on Sunday and grew to 500 acres, forcing residents to leave their homes as the fire rapidly expanded. Three homes were destroyed in a roaring blaze that was captured on video by local news crews. …Another wildfire in Riverside County broke out on Sunday and also spread across 500 acres, triggering evacuation orders that were eventually downgraded.