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The u.s. forest system warns resources are stretched thin, as exhausted firefighters battle multiple fires across the region. emilie ikeda is there. >> reporter: tonight, the largest single wildfire in california history on the doorstep of more historic small towns >> everything that i own is now ashes or twisted metal. it's just all it is. >> reporter: lightning strikes fueling more flames and powerful winds up to 50 miles per hour spreading the dixie fire's grip across bone-dry grounds. 540,000 acres in size, the dixie fire has more than 29,000 people under evacuation and has already destroy...

But my staff was pretty much up there every day with two or three vehicles. >> reporter: more than a million tourists a year make the day trip up to el yunque, the only tropical rain forest in the u.s. forest system. or at least they used to until hurricane maria. two weeks after the hurricane, cnn flew a drone at the park's entrance, but most of the forest remain out of sight. now we have been given permission to take you inside. if you knew el yunque before, you would not recognize it now. the farther into the forest you go, the greater the destruction. the category 4 storm obliterated the f...