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Michael J. Callan (he/him/his)

Principal
MIKECALLAN.COM
Middlefield, Connecticut, United States

Michael Callan is a 50-year veteran of the Fire Service. He served as a Captain with the Wallingford, Connecticut Fire Department for 20 years. In 2013, at the International Haz Mat Conference in Baltimore, he received the prestigious John M Eversole Lifetime Achievement Award - Given annually by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to recognize a living individual who has had an exceptionally distinguished career in the field of hazardous-materials emergency response. 2010, he received the prestigious Norman Y. Mineta Excellence in Transportation Award. The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) gives the Mineta Award annually. 2001, he was selected as the California Hazardous Materials Instructor of the Year. Michael Callan is the author of the book Responding to Natural Gas Emergencies, Responding to Electrical Emergencies, and Responding to Utility Emergencies (RTUE), used extensively by the Utilities Industries for training emergency responders and used as a traditional textbook and interactive training program called RTUE Online. He also authored the popular Street Smart Haz Mat Response by Red Hat Publications. In addition, he has two other textbooks, Responding to Natural Gas Emergencies and REsponding to Electrical Emergencies. In 1989, at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in Cincinnati, he was selected from 7000 municipal and private sector instructors as the International Society of Fire Instructors' - George D. Post Instructor of the Year. He is the developer of traditional, interactive training and now Virtual Reality delivering training. He is the lead instructor on the video training series by Emergency Resources Inc. - "Surviving the Hazardous Materials Incident." He is co-author of Hazardous Materials Exposures - Emergency Response and Patient Care, published by Brady and Prentice Hall.

He conducts nationwide energy, pipeline, safety, chemical, and emergency response training for Industrial and Municipal Haz-Mat Teams. He lists as clients corporations such as Pipeline Association for Public Awareness (PAPA), ComEd, Excel Energy, Puget Sound Energy, Wisconsin Utility Association, Vermont State Fire School, Illinois State Fire Academy, Laclede Gas, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Iowa Fire Service Training Bureau, SCANA, Northeast Utilities, Louisiana Pacific, Sprint, Pacific Gas and Electric, US DOJ - ATF, NASA & Kennedy Space Center, Duke Energy, General Motors, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Merck, Dupont, IBM, National Association of State Fire Marshals.

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