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Principal
MIKECALLAN.COM
Middlefield, Connecticut, United States
Michael Callan 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. In 2010 he was the recipient of the prestigious Norman Y. Mineta Excellence in Transportation Award. The Mineta Award is given annually by the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM). In 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 is also author of the popular Street Smart Haz Mat Response by Red Hat Publications. 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 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 has conducts energy, pipeline, safety, chemical and emergency response training around the country 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.