He Was One Mile Off West Field Boundary At 600ft. He Did Land Immediately  

Go line yourself at 600ft in forward flight (double an ILS glideslope angle) 1 mile off the end of a runway, and tell me where else you are going to land but on the runway.  A three degree glideslope is 300ft per mile.  He was OEI.  A 500ft per minute descent would have taken him the exact same forward distance to the airport at his lowest OEI power setting.

How soon do those fire lights go off?  He had about a minute and a half from the time he started turning to the time it came apart.  Add in human factor to diagnose what was going on. 

It would have been real easy for a fuel line to blow, cause an engine spool down, and not get a fire or fire light for another 10-30 seconds.  There would be all kinds of bells and whistles going off from the engine spool down eng fail, low rotor, and eventually the fire gong.  So then after panic piecing your OEI checklist, and verifying your RPM is good and your other engine has you, while in the middle of a turn and talking talking to ATC because you think you just have a normal engine failure, you get to start over and run your fire memorization checklist because you just got another gong stating another emergency.

Now wait a few seconds to see if the fire light goes out after pushing the shut off valve, because it takes 10-20 seconds to burn all the fuel in the line and kill the engine, and only then unloads the fire supression agent, I think after the engine spools below 50% N1, and then a few seconds to put out the file and reset the sensors.....All going at you a million times a second, while staring at a normal to steep approach angle down to the runway.... 

Some of you are on here saying you would have just chopped the throttle of the second good engine and auto'd this thing to a parking lot.  Tell me you're new without telling me you're new.

I don't care if you're on a 1 mile final at only 300ft.  If you get a fire light, you're still landing on the runway.  Anybody who says anything different is a moron.  Until you have all the info, you can't judge this.

Get over yourselves.  You're not that good.

One final, but likely unrelated to this scenario note to some of the armchair quarterbacks here, false fire lights are real.  Ask some of the GOMERs here why they didn't dump their collective and make precautionarys to the water, salt water destroying their helicopters and engines in the process.  It's what the checklist says.  They didn't do it, and you wouldn't have either.