A building catches fire, the fire department starts spraying down the surrounding buildings causing water damage but keeping them from also catching fire. Ever

A building catches fire, the fire department starts spraying down the surrounding buildings causing water damage but keeping them from also catching fire. Everyone is ok with this trade off, the reason we are allowing the water damage is to avoid the building burning down. The fire department started doing this when the building fire next door was on the first floor but threatened the rest of the building. The fire department was able to get that room where the fire started mostly put out, there's still a little bit of fire in the hallway, and they start putting the hoses away. "There's much less fire than when we started, and people were getting really angry about the water damage to the surrounding buildings. We are all done here!" Would you be happy about this situation, wouldn't you point out that even if there is less fire, nothing else has changed about the situation. Fire still spreads, it can still catch the building on fire, and that fire could still spread to the surrounding buildings. The problem isn't over yet, and if the whole point of suffering the water damage was that my building wouldn't burn down, well now I have water damage and it might still burn down.