When you are in a sinking ship, if you are wise, you do all you can to get out and if you can help, you try to help others out by getting them to a safe exit. If they don't understand WHY they are in danger, you try to explain, if you have time.
Who would want someone to risk their life to tell you exactly how the engine room is flooding? It is not important but that person trapped in the engine room, their freedom and life is important.
That people are trapped is tragic. It is their day-to-day life that is being taken away from them.