SOP's and idiots.
Here we have an aircraft evacuated on advice received from the emergency services, no one is hurt, the aircraft is not damaged and because of advice from the emergency services who would have been far better placed to view the incident the over wing exits are not used so the passengers are not dumped on top of a potential fire.
All good airmanship and CRM on the part of the pilots, cabin crew & fire service.
Yet above we have the SOP police commenting about the flaps not set to 40 and the over wing exits not being used.
I would like to remind some of you that SOP's alone will not keep you safe they are just a building block for flight safety, sometimes the SOP is the wrong thing to do, and sometimes the rules have to be broken to assure safety of the aircraft, any person who fails to understand this should no be let out without adult supervision.
Fortunately it would seem that all involved with this incident were wise enough to understand the difference between doing the correct thing ( SOP evacuation ) and doing the right thing ( safe evacuation).