So he entered without his crew member? How long would that have taken? I guess I can sort of understand the rules...Not really.
People sometimes have to act. If that had been my mother, wife, or child up there, I would be damned grateful for the attempt even if it is against the “rules”.
When I was in the USN working on the flight deck of a carrier, they told us to never deviate from the processes and procedures to accomplish things that they were going to teach us.
The CPO said that even if we had a “better” way of doing it, don’t...because many of those rules and procedures were written in blood.
That said, if it were my job to save people in a burning house, and time were of the essence...I would go in if it meant saving a life.
Not a firemen. But I can’t see how you might see someone lying on a burning floor in a smoke filled room with the situation ready to change very soon, and not realize if you are going to have a chance, you have to go for it now.