[FEARSOME FIRE OUT OF CONTROL] Explosive Frightening Still Raging California Wild Fire Spawning Monster 40,000 Foot Tall Clouds | VIDEO

[SFGATE] Spawning Monster 40,000 Foot Tall Clouds. Like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie, a raging California wildfire pumped out a monster cloud towering 40,000 feet into the atmosphere on Thursday. As the Mosquito Fire tore across Tahoe National Forest, making a 5,000-acre run across the American River and pushing into the El Dorado County town of Volcanoville, the cloud grew and grew.

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[ABC7] In the Sierra, the Mosquito Fire burned out of control on Thursday, scorching at least 11 square miles and forcing evacuations for some 2,500 residents in Placer and El Dorado counties. Evacuation warnings were elevated to evacuation orders on Thursday afternoon by both counties.

[KTVU] With 17 wildfires burning around the state. Calfire has its hands full and the fires keep coming. We've had 10 new wildfires week alone, the biggest being the Mosquito Fire. The still out of control fire is in high mountains, crossing from one county to another, with western Lake Tahoe 40 miles ahead of it. As U.S. Forest Service video shows, the now four-day-old Mosquito Fire, zero-percent contained, has jumped the American River, Rubicon River and Pilot Creek, spreading from Placer County into El Dorado County where mandatory evacuations have been ordered. After exploding in the last day, it has doubled in size to some 30,000 acres, the size of San Rafael and Sunnyvale combined. Though the extreme heat is leaving the Bay Area, it will still be in the 90s to more than a hundred degrees in that high region.