nose,cabin I was referring to this by
lomapaseo:
might the pilot judge from initial cabin reports that it was only a tailpipe fire and as such continued to operate the rh engine in idle with reversers stowed to blow the fire straight back?
That is: A warning call from the cabin would have been overtaken by the rapidity of the fire. If they needed to call to say 'there is a tailpipe fire' by the time they were speaking to them, the fire would have been fully established and their report uprated.
It is possible that the flow of warnings to the FC from tower, fire truck and cabin arrived close on top of each other. How they were handled - and acted upon - would depend upon the sequence of answering by the three flight crew. (We know it was at least three due to the length of the sector.) Only the voice and data recorders can answer that clearly, for the flight crew's own memories of the event may not be in sequence - as we know from other events.