For the study, I get the impression that the biggest hazard was the active computer equipment combined with the dust. The papers just mean that anything that happens will grow.

My attitude on fire comes from trying to minimize my everyday tendency to panic. The more that I think I actually can do, the more I worry about when I'll need to do it. It's a serious disability related to the anxiety. I suspect that, in practice, I'd move pretty damned fast to get us all out of the house once I knew there was a fire, but being fatalistic about it allows me to sleep. That is, if I tell myself that I can't do anything, my hyper-activated fight or flight tendencies don't constantly chew on the need to be ready right *now* and wouldn't be able to sleep without serious drugs. I have to find a way to let go of it.