Well, the police were right in one regard, they are not supposed to allow EMTs, paramedics, and fire fighters on scene until the threat of bodily harm from violence is secured. They teach you that in EMT/Medic school. If there is a potential threat, we stay the hell away until the scene is secure. Of course, that shouldn't have stopped them from firing hoses from a distance or bringing in airlifted water supplies. But, then again, the place should never have been bombed in the first place. When you say "bomb," what do you mean by it? The literal definition? Cannister-drops-out-of-sky-and-destroys-something-in-a-radical-explosion sort of "bomb"?