Patients wheeled out of a hospital, some still hooked to IVs, after earthquake hits

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit 11 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, according to the US Geological Survey. It comes a day after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake centered near Ridgecrest rattled the state Thursday. That earthquake has produced more than 1,400 aftershocks, scientists said.

Patients wheeled out into parking lot at a hospital in Ridgecrest, California, after an earthquake on Friday.

Shortly after the latest earthquake, the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital wheeled out patients -- some still hooked to their IV stands. Nurses tended to patients outside in the dark as sirens wailed. Hotels near the hospital suffered power outages, plunging the area in darkness.

In downtown Ridgecrest, firefighters battled the raging flames on a home, preventing them from hopscotching to other houses in the residential area.

Multiple fires and injuries have been reported in Ridgecrest -- about 150 miles from Los Angeles -- after Friday's earthquake, Kern County spokeswoman Megan Person said. The county has activated an emergency operations

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