Thank you RustyNuts for your post … and welcome to the community here
I'm new to Cargo air transportation business but being trained on Dangerous Goods transportation and having an idea how all cargo things organized I’m not any longer in doubt what to do with a first sign of Cargo Fire Warning, even having multimillion airplane to operate.
I’m new on 744 as well, and did a thorough reading through the systems description involved in this sad accident. I can say that I have found nothing that contravenes the logic in systems operation and procedures to follow through. FIRE CARGO FWD C/L constructed to make flight deck isolated out of the smoke coming from underneath and Boeing says … plan to land at the nearest suitable airport. For me it sounds now like … go and land ASAP even you don’t have one.
I’m waiting for the report released by investigation folks, indeed, to analyze the whole situation and make that made not just on rumors and reporters news but on CVR and FDR data.