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Brain and Fire: Thinking Under Pressure
By Marc Coenen Photos by author except where noted Sunday night, August 11, 2019. A night I will never forget. A fire erupts in an abandoned supermarket in Beringen, Belgium. I am the fire officer on duty. Two colleagues lose their lives. A third one is …