MEET THE AUTHORS
JoAnne Hildebrand and Michael Callan
JoAnne Hildebrand is the Academic Director of Fire Science at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), holds the rank of Collegiate Associate Professor, and chairs the USFA National Fire Academy (NFA) Degrees-at-a-Distance Higher Education Consortium. She is the author of the Instructor’s Guide to Hazardous Materials, Managing the Incident (1st and 2nd editions) and the Student Workbook to Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, 2nd. ed. She has also authored and taught a number of online courses at UMUC and has served on numerous Degrees-at-a-Distance Course Guide development teams at the National Fire Academy. She has taught, “Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials,” a 400-level course required for the major in fire science at UMUC, for more than 10 years using Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident as the primary textbook.
JoAnne was a founding member of NFPA Technical Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NFPA-1500) and served on the committee for nine years. As a consultant to her family business, she contributes to operational readiness reviews for emergency response teams and provides advice in emergency planning for industry and public safety.
JoAnne received her M.A. and B.A., Magna cum laude, with the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a recipient of the University of Maryland University College’s 2000 Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award.
Michael Callan is a thirty-year veteran of the Fire Service and a former Captain with the Wallingford, Connecticut Fire Department. Mr. Callan conducts Chemical Response training around the country for Industrial and Municipal Haz Mat Teams and has delivered over 8,500 hours training in fire suppression and hazardous materials operations. In 1989 at the Fire Department Instructors Conference 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 also was selected by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as a member of the Presidential Review Committee of the Clean Air Act 1990, Chemical Accident Prevention Committee, Chemical Accident Investigation Team, and the U.S. delegation that traveled to Canada, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia for emergency response preparedness, prevention and response reviews and seminars. In 2001, Mike received the prestigious James Meidl California Instructor of the Year Award presented by the Continuing Challenge in Sacramento.
Mr. Callan is the author of the Street Smart HazMat Response and Responding to Utility Emergencies. He is also the creator of Propane Emergencies and Pipeline Emergencies Facilitator’s Guide, a nationally recognized emergency response training program. He is coauthor of Hazardous Materials Exposures—Emergency Response and Patient Care published by Brady and Prentice Hall Publishing, and is the lead instructor on the video training series, Surviving the Hazardous Materials Incident by Emergency Resources Inc.
He is director of his own business, Callan and Company. His clients include Louisiana Pacific, General Motors, Phillips Petroleum, Morton Inter-national, The Stanley Works, Southern New England Telephone, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Bristol Meyers, Merck, Kennedy Space Center, Dupont, and IBM as well as fire departments and first responders throughout the United States and Canada.
JoAnne Hildebrand and Michael Callan
JoAnne Hildebrand is the Academic Director of Fire Science at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), holds the rank of Collegiate Associate Professor, and chairs the USFA National Fire Academy (NFA) Degrees-at-a-Distance Higher Education Consortium. She is the author of the Instructor’s Guide to Hazardous Materials, Managing the Incident (1st and 2nd editions) and the Student Workbook to Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, 2nd. ed. She has also authored and taught a number of online courses at UMUC and has served on numerous Degrees-at-a-Distance Course Guide development teams at the National Fire Academy. She has taught, “Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials,” a 400-level course required for the major in fire science at UMUC, for more than 10 years using Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident as the primary textbook.
JoAnne was a founding member of NFPA Technical Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NFPA-1500) and served on the committee for nine years. As a consultant to her family business, she contributes to operational readiness reviews for emergency response teams and provides advice in emergency planning for industry and public safety.
JoAnne received her M.A. and B.A., Magna cum laude, with the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a recipient of the University of Maryland University College’s 2000 Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award.
Michael Callan is a thirty-year veteran of the Fire Service and a former Captain with the Wallingford, Connecticut Fire Department. Mr. Callan conducts Chemical Response training around the country for Industrial and Municipal Haz Mat Teams and has delivered over 8,500 hours training in fire suppression and hazardous materials operations. In 1989 at the Fire Department Instructors Conference 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 also was selected by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) as a member of the Presidential Review Committee of the Clean Air Act 1990, Chemical Accident Prevention Committee, Chemical Accident Investigation Team, and the U.S. delegation that traveled to Canada, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia for emergency response preparedness, prevention and response reviews and seminars. In 2001, Mike received the prestigious James Meidl California Instructor of the Year Award presented by the Continuing Challenge in Sacramento.
Mr. Callan is the author of the Street Smart HazMat Response and Responding to Utility Emergencies. He is also the creator of Propane Emergencies and Pipeline Emergencies Facilitator’s Guide, a nationally recognized emergency response training program. He is coauthor of Hazardous Materials Exposures—Emergency Response and Patient Care published by Brady and Prentice Hall Publishing, and is the lead instructor on the video training series, Surviving the Hazardous Materials Incident by Emergency Resources Inc.
He is director of his own business, Callan and Company. His clients include Louisiana Pacific, General Motors, Phillips Petroleum, Morton Inter-national, The Stanley Works, Southern New England Telephone, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Bristol Meyers, Merck, Kennedy Space Center, Dupont, and IBM as well as fire departments and first responders throughout the United States and Canada.