Researcher Karl Weick Studied Two Events in Which Professional Fire

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Researcher Karl Weick studied two events in which professional fire fighters died during two different fires (one forest fire in 1949 and the other forest fire in 1993). Weick concluded that cognitive rigidity was one reason that the professional forest fighters died.

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