California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Siskiyou County, after wildfires broke out in rural Northern California, injuring several residents and burning an unknown number of homes. Dignity Health California spokeswoman Allison Hendrickson said - in an exclusive statement to the Associated Press - that two people were taken to the hospital, one in stable condition, and the other suffering from separate burns. State authorities indicated that winds of 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) helped spread the fires over an estimated area of ​​4 square miles (10.3 square kilometers) of land. from its neighboring communities. All 23 patients at the facility have been evacuated, with 20 patients going to local hospitals and 3 staying in her home, where hospital beds have been prepared, said Dr. Deborah Heger, medical director at Shasta View Medical Center. By the time the fire started on Friday, a power outage affecting about 9,000 residents was reported, and several thousand remained without power as of late last night, according to the website PacifiCorp for electricity, which attributed the cause to the bushfires. Thousands were also ordered to evacuate last Wednesday from a fire that broke out in the Castaic area north of Los Angeles and another fire in the eastern San Diego county near the Mexican border, where two people were severely burned, as well as the destruction of several homes, but these fires were contained. by 56% and 65%, respectively, and all evictions have been lifted

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