A fire tore through the nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad at dawn on Wednesday. Fourteen newborns died. One of the fifteen babies in the ward was saved. That is the event, and this is a story where we keep the jokes in the drawer. * Look at the first wave of headlines. AP: "Fire at hospital nursery in Pakistan's capital kills 14 newborns, officials say." CNN: "Islamabad hospital fire kills at least 14 newborn babies." Fox: "At least 14 newborns killed in Pakistan nursery hospital fire." In every one of them, the actor is the fire. That's not wrong — on day one, with officials as the only source, it's what a wire can verify. But a headline where fire kills is a physics report. Fires happen. The journalism starts with the next question: why couldn't anyone get to the babies? * BBC's headline, by the afternoon: "Witnesses say door was locked as Islamabad hospital blaze killed 14 babies." Different sentence, different story. Now there's a door, a lock, and a fight over both — attributed, not asserted, which matters when the claim is this heavy. * And the BBC piece does the whole job, which is why it leads tonight's grades. It has the mother, Jaweria, telling AFP the maternity ward door was locked: "For two hours I kept crying and wailing." It has a father telling Reuters the building had "no fire security, no proper exits" — and this sentence, which should be printed on the inquiry's front cover: "They kept the other doors locked because they feared we would come to see our children too often." And it has the hospital's executive director, on the record to the BBC, saying the door was not locked but "manned" — to protect babies from being stolen, which he notes has happened before at government hospitals. When the institution's defense of the door policy is itself an admission about the state of government hospitals, your job is to print it exactly, and they did. * The piece also holds two clocks next to each other without blinking: Islamabad's chief commissioner says rescue teams arrived "immediately"; a witness says "almost two hours"; Jaweria says police came after four and announced they were there to investigate. Her response — "To hell with you, rescue team and police. Babies burnt to death there, but nobody could save them" — is the kind of quote that ends arguments about which clock to trust. * Al Jazeera got to the doors too, with "Locked inside: Grief and anger as Pakistan hospital fire kills 14 newborns" — strong reporting underneath, though the label 'Locked inside' walks ahead of its own attribution in a way BBC's 'witnesses say' doesn't. Meanwhile the physics headlines mostly stayed physics: a fire happened, officials counted, an investigation was ordered, a prime minister expressed sorrow. Every disaster story in a country with weak safety enforcement can be written that way forever. * Here's the difference it makes. "Fire kills 14 newborns" generates no follow-up: the fire can't be subpoenaed. "Witnesses say the door was locked" generates homework for someone with a name and a title — which is presumably why officials prefer the first headline, and why it matters which one an outlet chooses on day two. Fourteen families already know which question they want answered. The doors have keys, and keys have keepers.