Fire Near Electricity Round About

Look fires happen everywhere. In fact in the last year the USA and Australia have suffered terrible fires on a scale beyond comprehension.
Fires also happen in Qatar. And unless there was something suspicious, malicious or criminal, and as specially if no one got hurt.... seriously who cares. Stuff happens right?
So I'm driving up E Ring road towards Electricity R/A and I see thick black smoke billowing up to the left. Interesting I think, I will get my camera ready. Turn left at Electricity R/A, drive a couple of hundred meters down the road and there is the source of the smoke on the left. I park on the right, walk across 4 lanes and a central reservation, cross some waste land, and start grabbing some shots from a perfectly safe distance without causing any problem to any one. I am standing next to a guy who is watching and he turns to me and says "Oh No! Don't Take Photos", I ask him why and he explains that is friend was taking photos and the police had taken him. Uh Oh! Time to make a sharp exit me thinks. So I started to return to my car. Anyone within range with a phone in their hand was being approached by police on foot, and or by car. I could see cars driving off being chased and stopped by police and seemingly questioned before driving off again. My camera is now off and put away and I am moving back across the waste land as quickly as possible in a game that felt like tag in the school playground trying not to get tagged and be on it. People are being chased off, cars parked are being moved on, I cross the road (all 4 lanes and a central reservation) observing the police also crossing the road and moving people on that side as well, get in my car and I am gone.
Now if the police were approaching people with cameras to look for evidence of the cause of the fire, well fair enough. If they were chasing people and cars to see if they had anything to do with the fire starting, also well and good, but if they were simply trying to stop people from taking photographs for censorship reasons, well that would be a shame and I hope it wasn't for that reason.
They could well have been asking if anyone had seen anything suspicious, but a) I had not, and b) I don't want to get into trouble with the police so my brisk walk back to the car did not involve actively seeking a conversation with anyone authoritative looking.
Anyway back to the fire. Well... It looked to me like it was a cluster of seemingly disused wooden porta-cabins that were burning. I could see no danger to anyone (other than the brave men trying to control it that is), and there was nothing sensational about it. Well I hope not anyway. In other words I hope no one was hurt. But my wild guess is that no one was. Basically it was a fire that could have happened anywhere and in any country. So why the big issue with people taking photos from a safe distance? Anyway here are my shots of a fire, that I stopped and photographed, because I am a photographer and it is my passion to photograph anything and everything. If am breaking any rules, please someone tell me and I promise I will not break them again.