So then do you recommend that qualified, genuinely decent people, avoid public servant jobs if they expect a reasonable level of privacy?
I’m not debating what is reasonable, just if we should turn people away from jobs for expecting privacy of any kind.
Put simply smoke doesn’t have to be hot. Smoke is just unburnt fuel caused by a process called offgassing (solid turning to a gas).
An example of cooled down smoke is a fire that starts in a well sealed room. It burns through as much fuel as possible, and while the solids are hot they turn into gas, however, due to a lack of oxygen, you don’t necessarily see combustion. So then the fire snuffs itself out and what you are left with is a cooling smoke.
So let’s say that the fire is on an upper floor. Heat goes up, cold goes down. So as smoke travels through a building it cools, and may eventually sink towards the ground or a lower level (this can be especially possible in a building as large as a cathedral) smoke sinks and interacts with bees at a “manageable temperature”.
Tldr: smoke isn’t always hot. The bees are happy.