Good point, I could be easily misinterpreted on that statement. I've seen when a fire burns hot it melts medicine containers, phones, chars wallets, all stuff kept on bedside tables. But if the wallet, keys etc fell to the floor, maybe they get wet and dirty, but they survive the intense heat. I've also seen things survive on bedside tables too, it just depends on how hot the fire gets. If the interior doors are burned away to the doorknob, chances it was hot enough to do pretty much the same to stuff on a bedside table. All I have to go on are the relatively few fire scenes I've seen, I'm no where near as knowledgeable as a fire fighter.

I didn't mean that if you had alot of important papers you could pile them on the floor and they'd come out okay. If the fire is fought in the room, they'll get really wet in the process, if they didn't burn up in the first place. Anything important, use a safe rated for fire protection. But I would mount such a safe down low too :-)