VIDEO> KREM 2's William Pitts reports

SPOKANE VALLEY -- With the Valley View Fire now contained, Spokane County officials are looking back to see what worked, and what didn't go so well.

The County's Emergency Operations Center was up and running, even before the Valley View Fire exploded.

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A panoramic view of smoke blowing from a fire in the Dishman Hills area in the Spokane Valley.

There were a handful of fires burning before that one even started, and somewhere in the mix, confusing evacuation information was released by officials.

"We're having a few issues with the way information's being relayed to the e-o-c,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said the night of the fire. “So I have closed the joint information center, all information will come out of the command post."

Late Thursday night the media started getting two sets of information.

One set from the joint information center -- telling people the evacuation area had shrunk and they could go home.

The other from sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and fire command post miles away -- telling people to stay away.  Both claimed they were right.

Finally, the sheriff sent a deputy to shut the information center down.

The sheriff is in charge of county emergency management.

Emergency management says it's learned from the mistakes that night, and will try to make sure it doesn't happen again.