Pretty much!
Of course, asking Dorner wouldn’t have yielded much better either.
“You got anyone in there?”
“Yeah! Me, the Pumpkin King, and the Tollhouse Cookie elves!”
“He’s got cookie elves!”
“Of course, asking Dorner wouldn’t have yielded much better either.”
No, probably not, but they could have taken other steps to make sure he was the only one they were lighting on fire. Get the thermal imaging equipment down there to check the building, for example.