They were not told how dangerously radioactive the smoke and the debris were, and may not even have known that the accident was anything more than a regular electrical fire: "We didn't know it was the reactor.
Non se lles informou do grao de perigosidade radioactiva que tiñan o fume e os fragmentos, e nin sequera chegaron a coñecer que o accidente era algo máis que un lume eléctrico normal: "Non sabíamos que era no reactor.