SMH
Don’t have any kids and have never (yet) been responsible for watching one for more than a few minutes. But I can certainly see where some might believe it’s a bad idea to leave x-number of young kids alone, asleep, to go off and do something that might render you unable to perform your primary duty of getting them out of harms way.
Where I work our first priority is to make sure everyone is out or leaving, then, maybe, attempt to fight the fire.