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This article doesn't mention it, but often when wood is used in 'modern' ways, it's laminated wood, and treated with fire-retardant materials. A contractor proposed a 'wooden' beam to me in one of my buildings a few years ago, in a place where traditionally it would have been steel, and the beam they ended up putting in looked like it was about equal amounts of wood and resin (that's an exaggeration of course - just saying, you could still recognize it as wood, but it's nothing like 'chop the sides off this log to square it and toss it in'; today's construction wood (in big(er) projects) in Europe isn't anything like 'building with wood' in the rest of the world).

Plus, a building that is framed with high-density wood beams is different (in terms of fire propagation properties) from an Anglo-Saxon style building of cheap (i.e., low density) timber 2x4's with sheet rock cladding.