The constructed case with the fire is about as unlikely as the statement that the lock prevents a burglary.
Google fire and Memphis and possibly September 2016. 9 people died in a fire because they could not get out of the windows. These are now of course only the extreme cases where, as here, 9 people died, but there are 200,000 fires in Germany every year. Most of them are caused by defective appliances, so it does not matter at all whether new building, old building, apartment, house, etc. There were only 167,000 burglaries, so fewer.