BASTROP, TEXAS (AP) -- Authorities say active flames from a massive Central Texas wildfire are behind containment lines and some residents evacuated from unburned areas can return to their homes.
Smoldering hot spots remain across the 45 square miles blackened by the massive Bastrop County wildfire.
But a spokesman for an interagency team assisting the Texas Forest Service says flames are inside the lines surrounding about 30 percent of the fire area.
Rudy Evenson says Thursday' major concern is wind sparking more flames beyond those boundaries.
Nearly 1,400 homes have been destroyed about 25 miles east of Austin and about 5,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes.
Neighborhoods outside the area where the fire has burned will reopen Thursday. Evenson couldn't immediately say how many of the evacuees live in those neighborhoods.
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