California continues to be ravaged by wild forest fires, and experts are predicting that the infernos will not cease anytime soon. In fact, analysts are saying that more fires are expected to spark up in the region over the course of the near future.

Recently, Burney in California laid victim to two wild forest fires that broke out eight kilometers in distance from each other. The fires threatened the lives of the people of Burney as well as the infrastructure of the town. Also at risk is the Mayer Memorial Hospital which serves as a center of health care for elderly people who are in need of intensive and long term medical treatment.

Evacuations started in Burney when the larger among the two fires started engulfing the communities, as many as eight, making it necessary for action to be taken on the part of the authorities. Patients residing at the Mayer Memorial Hospital were transported to another hospital, a few miles away. At present there as many as fourteen wildfires that are ranging across the state of California.

Governor Jerry Brown in a statement to the press last week, declared the situation to be a state of calamity with the assurance that every possible measure was being taken by official authorities to bring the fires down and tend to the rehabilitation and care of those who have been directly affected by it.

Harsh winds that have been wreaking havoc across the California countryside are partially responsible for speeding up the fires by a considerable degree. California has also witnessed a good number of lightening strikes that have aggravated the situation and the spread of the forest fires.