The wildfire in Northern California is still out-of-control and it is now threatening to burn down more than 2,000 homes.

The razing inferno has already consumed tens of thousands of additional acres.

According to state fire officials, the fire east of Sacramento had burned through 111 square miles as of Thursday morning, up from 44 square miles on Wednesday, when it forced the authorities to order evacuations of more people. The wildfire is only 5 percent contained.

Many of the homes, which is north of Pollock Pines and about 60 miles from Sacramento, have been placed under mandatory evacuation orders.

"It's been an explosive couple of days," said a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Daniel Berlant.

"We are faced with a large and dangerous fire," said Laurence Crabtree, a United States Forest Service supervisor for the Eldorado National Forest, The Sacramento Bee reported. "We have had significant losses of public timberland, private timberland and watershed."

A helicopter was today pressed into service to drop water on an approaching wildfire in San Marcos, Calif., where winds affected the course of fire.

A state of emergency was declared in the region by Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday. The declaration would help in freeing up money to fight the fire, as well as a fire near the Oregon-California border. Brown had also secured federal grants to control the blaze.

In Weed, a town located near the Oregon border which witnessed a wildfire on Monday and raged across the community, teams of firefighters went to each and every house to down damage. Local officials said that the fire had destroyed 110 homes and damaged 90 others.