Reall appointed to National Fire Protection Agency Committee

Colum­bus Divi­sion of Fire Bat­tal­ion Chief Jack Reall has been appointed to the National Fire Pro­tec­tion Agency (NFPA) Tech­ni­cal Cor­re­lat­ing Com­mit­tee for Fire Ser­vice Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing and Equip­ment, Fire Chief Greg Pax­ton announced today. Chief Reall is the first Colum­bus fire­fighter to be appointed to the NFPA Tech­ni­cal Cor­re­lat­ing Committee.

The NFPA Tech­ni­cal Cor­re­lat­ing Com­mit­tee for Fire Ser­vice Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing and Equip­ment over­sees the actions of sev­eral Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tees and hun­dreds of stan­dards from fire sta­tion uni­forms to lad­der trucks. In 1997, Reall was the first Divi­sion mem­ber to be appointed to the NFPA Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee on Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Pro­tec­tive Cloth­ing and Equip­ment which was respon­si­ble for writ­ing the national stan­dards for the fire ser­vice on sta­tion wear, Urban Search and Res­cue cloth­ing, as well as water and rope res­cue equipment.

Reall, a cer­ti­fied para­medic, joined the Colum­bus Divi­sion of Fire in 1989. He is cur­rently assigned as a relief offi­cer on one unit. His pre­vi­ous assign­ments include the Engine, Lad­der and Res­cue Com­pa­nies that ser­viced areas through­out the city. He was pro­moted to the rank of Lieu­tenant in June of 1996, Cap­tain in March of 2004 and Bat­tal­ion Chief in Jan­u­ary of 2011. Prior to join­ing Colum­bus Fire, Reall was a mem­ber of the West­er­ville and Lan­caster Fire Divi­sions. Reall is the cur­rent Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Fire Fight­ers Local 67 a posi­tion he has held since first being nom­i­nated on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2011.

In addi­tion, Reall has been actively involved in sev­eral spe­cial projects with the Divi­sion. He assisted in the tran­si­tion to the IFSTA Recruit Train­ing Pro­gram and the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of the Res­cue Tech­ni­cian Pro­gram with the Division’s Train­ing Bureau. He served as the Bureau’s Res­cue Train­ing Offi­cer and was instru­men­tal with the Division’s High Rise Fire Train­ing Pro­gram at Tay­lor Ter­race. He is also respon­si­ble for the imple­men­ta­tion of the account­abil­ity sys­tem cur­rently used by the Division.

Reall serves as a cer­ti­fied Res­cue and Haz-Mat Tech­ni­cian with the Divi­sion. He is actively involved in pro­mot­ing fire­fighter safety and a mem­ber of var­i­ous Divi­sion and Union com­mit­tees, includ­ing the Division’s Cloth­ing Committee.

In addi­tion, Reall serves as a Res­cue Team Man­ager for the FEMA Urban Search and Res­cue Sys­tem for Ohio Task Force 1. In this capac­ity, Reall has par­tic­i­pated in numer­ous events, includ­ing the search and res­cue efforts at the World Trade Cen­ter site in New York fol­low­ing the ter­ror­ist attack on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 and most recently the res­cue efforts after Hur­ri­cane Sandy.

In 2003, Sec­re­tary Tom Ridge appointed Reall to the Emer­gency Response Senior Advi­sory Com­mit­tee for the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity. He has served on the National Fire Acad­emy Board of Vis­i­tors as a White House Appointee through the terms of Pres­i­dents Bush and Obama. Reall also trav­els inter­na­tion­ally teach­ing Struc­tural Col­lapse Eval­u­a­tion and Rescue.

In 2001, Reall was awarded two Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice Awards for his out­stand­ing efforts with the FEMA Urban Search and Res­cue Sys­tem for Ohio Task Force 1 fol­low­ing the ter­ror­ist attack on the World Trade Cen­ter on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 and his work on the Division’s Res­cue Tech­ni­cian Pro­gram. He is also the recip­i­ent of three Bat­tal­ion Chief Com­men­da­tion Awards. In 2001, he was rec­og­nized for his assis­tance in the Division’s High Rise Res­cue Train­ing Pro­gram at Tay­lor Ter­race. In 1993, he received the award for his efforts on Recruit Train­ing Acad­emy stan­dards and in 1991 he was rec­og­nized for the heroic res­cue of civil­ians from a fire on Hunter Street.

Reall is part of a pub­lic ser­vice fam­ily tra­di­tion. His great grand­fa­ther, Jesse Reall, was a Colum­bus Patrol Offi­cer who died in the line of duty on Feb­ru­ary 26, 1920.

Reall is a grad­u­ate of Colum­bus Whet­stone High School and Mount Ver­non Nazarene Uni­ver­sity and Urbana Uni­ver­sity. He has a bachelor’s degree in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion and a minor in Chemistry.

He and his wife, Brenda, reside in Sun­bury and have a son, Bryce, age 23.

Posted by Gary Henery on Dec 12 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.