To me the "pull it" meant get the firefighters out of there, not to blow it up.
You think so? If that's what he really meant, so be it, it doesn't matter anyways, doesn't add much to the wealth of other evidence.
“The modern astrophysical concept that ascribes the sun’s energy to thermonuclear reactions deep in the solar interior is contradicted by nearly every observable aspect of the sun.” —Ralph E. Juergens