US Forest Service at capacity as wildfires continue

An ornament rests in front of a Greenville home destroyed by the Dixie Fire in Plumas County (Noah Berger/AP)

The US Forest Service is operating in crisis mode, fully deploying firefighters and maxing out its support system as wildfires continue, threatening thousands of homes and entire towns.

The roughly 21,000 federal firefighters working on the ground is more than double the number of firefighters sent to contain forest fires at this time a year ago.