The employee responsible (McIntosh) has been fired. He still thinks he did the right thing.
This is the problem with putting genuinely incompetent people in positions of authority. They are incapable of believing anyone is able to do more than they can do. The employee is undoubtedly correct. If he had tried to fight the fire e could have died.
Unfortunately, for the pigs in the sort term, he was incapable of considering the likelihood that the professionally trained fire fighters knew how to deal with the fire. This is a classic example of an asshole.
That was one expensive employee.
Estimating risk is part of a firefighter's job.