Southern Calif. Wildfire Now 4% Contained

A "devastating" wildfire in San Bernardino County, California, that has destroyed many homes and forced mass evacuations, is now 25,626 acres with 4 percent containment, officials said Wednesday night.

Previously, officials said the fire was 30,000 acres, but its size was modified due to "more accurate mapping," the San Bernardino National Forest tweeted.

The Blue Cut fire — named after the Blue Cut hiking trail, where it began Tuesday morning — has forced about 82,000 people to evacuate from an estimated 35,000 homes.

San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig said while some homes have been saved, many families will return to nothing.

"In my 40 years of fighting fire, I’ve never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday," said Mike Wakoski of the San Bernardino County Fire Department.

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Tuesday in San Bernardino County.

The cause of the fire is unknown.