If only breakout could be less annoying. But its about to get worse of a level. I discovered 2 tricks that allow you to get by the fire statues without getting burned. The first set of statues shown in the video you use the Armour half way through then switch to sly to run through the rest. This first set is all about the positioning of the last fire statue. That is what you look for when you are about to jump over it. The second Armour skip you just use the paraglider while running against the wall to skip getting burned. These strats are kind of hard to do and might not be used in runs but together they save about 3-5 seconds

Pretty neat stuff. Definitely Episode strat worthy not sure about full game though if they're as risky as you're saying.