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The author is a 26-year fire service veteran in a Midwest fire department. During his career he moved from the rank of fire fighter to chief along with all of the responsibilities and experiences that accompany that rise through his department. Those include years of developing training programs, creating training materials, and the delivery of the programs to a wide group of audiences in and outside of the fire service. The development of a pandemic planning guide is a natural extension of past experiences and current responsibilities for disaster planning, including pandemic influenza planning. State and national recognition as an instructor and for a fire safety research project are among his accomplishments.