She seems to be drawn to "critical" situations.
What's that prove? She is/was on the staff of The Tech, and that location is a stone's throw from her dorm room.
Nothing.
Is everyone here a panic mechanic? The picture is not of a fire, but of a firetruck sitting outside of a building having responded to an alarm. I suppose we don't know that Simpson did not set off the alarm and then standby with her camera at the ready to photograph the ensuing panic.
However, conservatives are supposed to believe in objective and demonstrable fact. If we base all of our suspicions on things we don't know we will go downhill fast as a society.