Raging wildfires, windy conditions and a heat wave with temperatures reaching upward of 100 degrees converged in a dangerous combination over the weekend, as extreme weather continued to batter much of the Western United States on Tuesday.  In California, helicopters battled smoky skies overnight in an attempt to rescue dozens of people trapped in the fiery depths of the Sierra National Forest, with at least 362 people flown to safety by Tuesday afternoon.  In Oregon, fires in Santiam Canyon east of Salem blanketed the city in such thick smoke that the sky was an apocalyptic orange. The Oregon Department of Corrections evacuated 1,450 inmates from three nearby prisons, and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office shared a video of multiple structure fires in Mill City.