An explosive wildfire is moving into a California city, and it's showing no signs of stopping - see photos from the scene

The Carr Fire broke out on Monday near Shasta, a small community in Northern California.

By Thursday night, the blaze had reached the outskirts of Redding, a city of 92,000 people.

People in Redding were unprepared for the blaze, The Associated Press reports, with traffic backed up by residents trying to flee the city.

Source: Associated Press

The Carr Fire is "taking down everything in its path," Scott McLean, a Cal Fire spokesman told The Associated Press. "It's just a wall of flames. It's nonstop."

Firefighters are doing everything they can to halt the blaze.

1,748 firefighters have been dispatched to the scene, according to Cal Fire, including 110 fire trucks, 10 helicopters, 22 dozers, 34 water trucks, and 51 hand crews.

Source: Cal Fire

But the fire is still raging out-of-control — and it's spreading.

"It's just chaotic. It's wild," McLean said. "There's a lot of fire, a lot of structures burning."

The fire already has claimed 15 structures as of Thursday night, and has caused burn injuries to both civilians and firefighters.

Source: Cal Fire, Associated Press

In an interview with The New York Times, McLean compared it to the Tubbs Fire that burned through Napa and Sonoma county last year.

Source: The New York Times

"This fire is just extremely dynamic," McLean told The Times. "We really haven’t seen anything like this except for last year on the Tubbs."

Source: The New York Times