PHOTOS: California Detwiler Fire Burns Over 25,000 Acres, 5000 Residents Near Yosemite Evacuated

A fire in central California is raging unabated with the fire department saying Tuesday that Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County has swept over 25,000 acres and only 5 percent of it could be contained.

Nearly 5,000 residents were forced to evacuate Mariposa town and surrounding areas Tuesday.

Along with evacuations, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Mariposa county, which is home to about 17,400 people.

"As on July 16, 2017, the Detwiler Fire started in Mariposa County and has rapidly burned thousands of acres of land and continues to burn; and whereas this fire has destroyed structures and continues to threaten homes, necessitating the evacuation of thousands of residents," the proclamation of the state emergency stated.

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Cal Fire posted a fact sheet on Twitter informing residents about the latest updates on the fire, evacuations, road closures and conditions.

Apart from Mariposa, other regions such as Hunters Valley, Bear Valley, Catheys Valley, Mormon Bar, Mount Bullion, Yaqui Gulch/Aqua Fria areas and Hornitos were also under threat, Cal Fire said. They also said the fire was encroaching on “culturally and historically sensitive areas," according to NBC News.

The Detwiler fire started Sunday afternoon and had scorched thousands of acres by displaying "extreme and aggressive” behavior Tuesday, fire officials said.

Officials have also expressed concern about winds that might aggravate the situation and make it more difficult for the officials to put out the fire, a report said quoting the National Weather Service meteorologist Carlos Molina.

Social media users and other media outlets have posted images and videos of the deadly fire.

"I haven't seen these conditions in a long time, it's a wind-driven, slope-driven, fuel-driven fire," Jerry Fernandez with Cal Fire told an ABC affiliate in Fresno.

Local residents narrated the rescue operations. Joey Street, 49, a tree trimmer and a resident of Mariposa for about 25 years, was among the first set of people to be evacuated to a Red Cross makeshift shelter set up at Mariposa Elementary School, which was later closed, according to U.S. News and World Report.

"(Firefighters) don't have control of it now, so they'd better be safe than sorry," Street told the Fresno Bee. "The conditions significantly worsened from Monday to Tuesday...Yesterday it didn't look too bad, today you can't even see Mt. Bullion right now, which tells me it's getting closer," Street said. "More ash falling from the sky tells me it's getting closer."

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Earlier this month, wildfires engulfed western U.S. and parts of Canada, destroying homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee. In California, two major wildfires forced nearly 8,000 people out of their properties, according to the Guardian.

As of June 25, more than 2,135 fires were reported in California this year. Those fires burned more than 20,200 acres of land. During the same period last year, there were 1,750 fires that scorched 18,354 acres, according to the Cal Fire.