I can overlook pretty much every other flaw in the movie for one reason or another, but I can't imagine how Stone would pick his dream team for an emergency situation but apparently without them EVER having VISITED the place and participated in any of the drills that were mentioned!
As a top secret facility - the less who know about it, the better. I'm guessing the other staffers at Wildfire are permanent residents. Makes me wonder how they silenced all the designers and construction crews.
shareEven if they had to bring in Hall and the others wearing blindfolds or something, it would have made sense for them to get some practice with the equipment they'd be using - and maybe the people they'd be dealing with too - if advance of a real "fire." Apparently they were getting briefing materials over time that probably at least mentioned the existence of a facility even if the actual location wasn't part of it.
One "drawback" - at least in terms of the movie - is it might have been impossible for Leavitt to have kept her epilepsy a secret in that case. But "in reality" that's a GOOD thing!