Diet...
There is your typical Chippie attitude for you!
He is setting there with his coffee and doughnuts watching Telly....and some mere civilian helicopter pilot pulls off a rescue in the middle of the night....I don't blame him for being testy.
He could have asked why his department did not equip and train him to do similar work...after all...that is why they are out there, right? To serve and protect is the motto isn't it?
What he is really miffed over probably is the fact the guys continued after being told to bugger off....refusing to obey a police officer can be a mortal sin in California.