Wood as a construction material is not really the problem, it burn fairly slow. The problem is our furniture and other stuff changed from wood to MDF and petroleum based based products, reducing the time you have to react from 15 minutes to 3 minutes.

If you look at a map of where smoke detectors are mandatory and where not in the EU, it’s more about rich vs poor: q-certified.eu/…/smoke-detector-legislation-in-th…