I don't share your opinion.
I don't know that anyone called AIW. JW told LE that is how he knew but LE hasn't confirmed it but LE has confirmed JW admitted lying to them.
If it was my neighbor's house on fire, I wouldn't call his company, I'd call him. I have his and his wife's cell phone numbers.
JMO
Maybe I am shy, too deferential, and tend to under estimate my own role in an organization, or chain of official responsibilities, unless my role has been defined as "the first responder,", I wait for direction, if only so as not to jam the lines, unduly alarm folks, or complicate an effort to help by inserting myself.Yes, if I were the very best friend of the Savopoulos's , or family, felt myself to be THE one who should alert AS (ie.felt it my "role" to do so), I'd risk jamming the lines and being an "alarmist." JW worked for SS as a driver. The AIW official who called JS to try to discover if SS was with JS, or who, out of courtesy informed JW of the fire, I'd think was much more in a position to contact AS (or first contact her family and let them take it from there), to decide any intervention that AS employees should make, or to ask appropriate authorities to contact her and offer escort to her home. JW was taking a great deal upon himself in contacting her--all of it not necessarily a good idea as he could unduly alarm her causing her to have an accident on the way to the scene or to suffer completely unneeded stress. Doesn't seem his PLACE to tell AS her home was on fire. Did the AIW official ask that he do so?
Did he ask AIW if he might help in some way?
AIW must have known the fire department had been notified, and have had a somewhat closer relationship to AS and SS family than would JW so it would be coordinating a response to supplement emergency response, not JW.
It is natural that he might show up at the scene, once contacted about whether or not he had seen SS, but personally calling AS and leaving that hokey message?
Over-stepping, not helpful, possibly obstructive and alarmist and probably unneeded. I don't say it is proof of anything. Just that, unless he is a total greenhorn, insensitive, and stupidly inappropriate, his call does nothing but establish his own alibi.