The Robber's Fire was 40 percent contained, with full containment expected Friday, said Jerry Rohnert, spokesman for a Boise, Idaho-based national interagency firefighting team. A police and firefighting force that peaked at 458 was being reduced to 358.
``After all the work they did yesterday, the concern is very, very low that anything will happen as far as additional fire,'' Rohnert said.
A subdivision of 15 homes remained evacuated, along with a Girl Scout camp and a youth correctional facility on a nearby ridge. A voluntary evacuation remained in effect for 350 homes in Kyle Canyon, about 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Elite ``Hot Shot'' wildfire crews from throughout the West were still on a smoldering line atop an 11,000-foot ridge, Rohnert said, while helicopters dropped water on flare-ups in an ashen burn zone west of state Highway 158.
A truck crash on the mountain highway sparked the fire shortly after noon Monday, authorities said.
Five firefighters have reported minor injuries ranging from a twisted ankle to chest pains, Rohnert said.
Officials cut in half the estimated the cost of fighting the blaze in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, to about $760,000.
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