These people had 2 choices. Jump or burn. That's it. Anyone that had a chance of fighting their way out would not have jumped.
I would say they had a choice between jumping (certain death) waiting around to burn (certain death) or in trying the best they could to get out somehow (very likely death, very small possibility of survival).
I would rather latch on to that slim hope of a miraculous escape and try for it and wind up burning to death anyway, than to jump or wait and find out on judgment day that I could have gotten out if I tried. That's MY choice and there is no reason for you be upset about my choosing something other than you.