[briant]

Firefighters had not entered the building when Martin rushed in, officials said. Lawson said the situation was too dangerous for anyone to enter the burning building at that time. ''The floors were collapsing, the fire was escalating and there was a lot of smoke coming from the building. I'm really sorry that this happened. We cannot have citizens or other people creating additional problems, which probably took a little bit of time. No, we do not wait to go in. We will go in and search and do the best we can with any life — human, animal, any life.

PC. Just say humans are more important. If the guy goes in and gets the dog, good for him. If he gets stuck and dies, he gets Darwin nomination. Not that hard.

And based on the bs response by these people it just sounds like the government teaching this guy who the boss is.

[Illbay]

"The government teaching this guy?"

Or is it those "odious government hangers-on," the firefighters?

Pretty glib in your puny estimate of a firefighter's life, aren't you?

[Mulder]

And based on the bs response by these people it just sounds like the government teaching this guy who the boss is

Exactly. The worst thing in the mind of most gov't workers is when someone demonstrates that they really aren't needed