Devs don't wake up in the middle of the night to rush into the office to fix a "small" issue. Have you ever been the on-call sysadmin or developer? I have and know plenty more that had wear the dreaded pager. They don't leave their beds at 4AM for small problems. They generally don't even leave their home a medium problem. They leave and rush into the office for big problems.
What bigger deal could the network have? It was a complete stoppage.
some of them didnt wake up at 4 am. there are a lot from Europe timezone :) lol get the facts straight. if they didnt work, i suppose you would not be able to publish this post.