Question

On December 3, 1999, a fire broke out in an abandoned cold storage warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts (Figure 1-1). The large seven-story structure—actually two connected buildings—was built in the years preceding World War I. Since the structure had been used to process meat and store frozen foods, its interior surfaces were lined with asphalt-impregnated cork, supplemented in later years with polystyrene foam. In addition, the structure was essentially windowless, given the need to keep the interior cold. There was only a single exit from the upper floors. Arriving fire fighters began searching for the fire and people in the maze-like structure. The building was a known domicile for squatters; rumors of homeless people being trapped in the building surfaced during the early stages of the fire. As fire fighters operated in the building, conditions deteriorated rapidly. Two fire fighters became lost and began running low on air. They called for help, and succeeding sets of fire fighters began a frantic search for them. With conditions getting even worse, four additional fire fighters became lost in the building. The district chief in charge of interior operations made the decision to not allow any more fire fighters into the build- ing. He physic

1. How difficult was it for the district chief to decide to not allow any additional fire fighters into the building to search for their lost brother fire fighters?

Answer 1

It was obviously tough situation for chief for decision making. Initially two fire fighters lost in that maze-like structure , subsequently another four of them lost . He really became stressed, as he was responsible for their safety ( as like a captain of a ship) , So he can't took step of risking remaining fire fighters .

Why he can't take that risk:

In that situation chief allows fighters who are experienced like these before , even such experience candidates got lost how can he risk (if noobies)remaining of them.

On a scale of 1 to 10 , one can alot 8 { why not 10 because in some situations are more difficult than this}