Re: Engine fire, EDI
At the subsequent board of enquiry, you need to have a jolly good reason for deviating from your company SOP.
BA obviously decide that the chances of another fire as serious and fast acting as the one in MAN are very small so have written their SOPs accordingly. Your company clearly takes a different view.
If I ordered an evacuation before firing the second bottle, the fire then went out straight away and someone subsequently (and very unluckily) died of a concussion received whilst going down the slide, I don't think it would look all that good for me.
Conversely, If you didn't order an evacuation straight away and the worst were to happen you'd be in a similar amount of hot water.
WRT this incident, BA have been quoted as saying that the crew had no cockpit fire indications and we do not know yet who actually initiated the evacuation.