Officials with the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency announced at 9:45 p.m. that fire crews battling the Jenny Creek Road Fire north of La Center had contained the blaze enough to allow residents of the Green Level 1 and Yellow Level 2 evacuation zones to return home with caution.
The announcement stressed that areas within Red Level 3 are still not clear and the evacuation orders stand.
The blaze started with a house fire in a rural area north of La Center that spread to surrounding brush, prompting fire officials to call for evacuations that reached into the city itself.
Dispatchers with Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency were initially using a reverse 911 system to reach residences about a Level 3 GO NOW evacuation zone within a half-mile of the fire in the hilly wooded area.