I have the same issues and its driving me crazy im so close to burning all of my sims and unalive them. I read the thread and i see this is actually been open for nearly a year and its stupid its still not fixed or talked about enough!
if this is not a bug then what is it? cause im playing a family of 7 sims and all of them have this fear and the second i manage get this out of one sims, other sims decide to cook automaticly and start a fire and im back at square one,
THIS IS AN ENDLESS LOOP AND ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY! someone get this fixed or at least someone who knows how to do mods make a mod to disable the fire fear bcz for the first time this issue has nothing to with mods and once again we have to ask to mod makers to fix this bcz ea is probably not gonna acknowledge this issue 😞
EDIT: i just find a cheat that turns off all fires in the game so im gonna try that hopefully it will work if it does ill edit this comment again!
EDIT: IT SEEMS TO WORK!!! i forgot to write the cheat so its,
fire.toggle off
u only need to type it in once so not everytime u start the game like testingcheats and ive been playing for 2 hours trying get all my sims to with fear of fire to cook they theres has not been once a fire!
and to get rid of this fear without making others get it, u can first type the testingcheats and then shift click to an empty ground and click Debug - Start Fire and then get your sims extinguish it. idk if it scared the other sims tho bcz ive been doing it outside of the house without fire alarms.
HOPE IT WORKS