[~MS~]

I can appreciate your position even if I disagree, public service personnel tend to have a 'one of our own' mentality and I would hazard a guess that of those off duty officers not one was ordered to the site but in fact drove there of their own choice. Another poster on another site was furious that the rescue operations had halted momentarily while they extracted the officers remains and lowered her to the ground. By the time they brought her out it had gone from a rescue to a recovery operation and the presence of those officers gave the entire rescue team a moment to allow themselves to grieve at the horror they'd been dealing with all afternoon. It 'cost' the county/city nothing and it let those men and women have a moment before digging back into the carnage.