Making your house safe from burglars/intruders means making it harder for unauthorized people to enter your house. However if your burglar protection is too good, this can create a hazard when you need to escape from your house.
Metal bars in front of the windows and reinforced doors with multiple locks can be a good way to keep people out, but they also keep out firefighters or other rescue units. Although rotary saws, chainsaws and halligan tools can clear most burglar protection, it takes time. Can you exit you house during a fire when you have placed bars in front of your windows? Can you exit the front door when you have locked them and you keys are on a table somewhere else?
Some houses even have concealed rooms or very unexpected layouts due to all kinds of modifications of the building. If your house has collapsed and you are in a well hidden safe room, can others find you and get you out? Can firefighters find you during a fire when you are in a hidden space?
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When looking at safety, it's important to look at it in different angles. If one safety measure decreases your safety on a kind of safety, you might need to take measures to compensate this.
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