Well, that's precisely the point, isn't it? If you're sitting around waiting for an all-clear for a thing that ISN'T ongoing, you're letting people die unnecessarily. If there are people with rifles and grenades shooting people, that's one thing. If it's a bombing, well, waiting around for someone else to check for bombs while people are bleeding -- that's what FEMA wants to stop doing.
Although I do remember one bit from the London bombings: the bomb that went off accidentally on the top of the double-decker bus went off right outside a medical research facility, filled with doctors -- doctors who had been in research for the past few decades of their careers, but still doctors. They were about to rush out to help -- and one of them told them to wait for the SECOND explosion. He'd started his career in the military, and his expectation was that terrorists would set off one bomb, wait for the medical people to respond, and then set off another one... as it turned out, of course, that didn't happen there, but it IS a consideration.
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Although I do remember one bit from the London bombings: the bomb that went off accidentally on the top of the double-decker bus went off right outside a medical research facility, filled with doctors -- doctors who had been in research for the past few decades of their careers, but still doctors. They were about to rush out to help -- and one of them told them to wait for the SECOND explosion. He'd started his career in the military, and his expectation was that terrorists would set off one bomb, wait for the medical people to respond, and then set off another one... as it turned out, of course, that didn't happen there, but it IS a consideration.
It's just LESS of a risk than NOT going in.