In this special edition of Coffee Break With Jake, Jake Voll sits down with Rebekah Johnson, co-founder and executive director of Embers of Hope.

Rebekah's story starts in May 2002, when an electrical spark from the outlet behind her headboard set her mattress, and her, on fire. She woke up engulfed, ran out the front door, dropped, and rolled in the grass. Then she ran back inside for her roommates and her pets. She was treated at Shands Burn Unit in Gainesville. What followed is the part most people never hear: years of revisions and skin grafts that don't grow with a child, the social and emotional weight burn-injured kids carry back into a school of 400 classmates, and the life she has since built advocating for arc-fault protectors, working smoke detectors, and residential fire sprinklers. She and her husband, a Florida firefighter, founded Embers of Hope to run a Florida burn camp where kids don't have to wear a hoodie in 85-degree weather to hide their scars.

In this episode, we talk about...

✅ The night Rebekah woke up on fire, what stop-drop-and-roll actually looked like in the moment, and why a practiced plan beats any single product on the wall
✅ The recovery story most people never hear: the social and emotional aftermath, including what life is like for a kid going back to school covered in scars
✅ How a 30-minute transformation happens at Embers of Hope camp, including the boy who took off the do-rag he had worn since his injury and never put it back on
✅ The sixth-grade boy who begged Rebekah to help him get back to school after his district denied medical transport, and how she made it happen
✅ Why the low-battery smoke detector signal central station keeps reporting is a bigger deal than dealers sometimes treat it (Jake includes a confession of his own)
✅ The advocacy fight for arc-fault protectors, residential fire sprinklers, and code changes that prevent these injuries in the first place
✅ The Kidde Commercial partnership: 10% of gross profit on Kidde Commercial sales through SS&Si this year, up to $10,000, matched dollar for dollar by Kidde, all going to Embers of Hope

Learn more about Embers of Hope: https://www.embersofhopefl.org/

Coffee Break With Jake is recorded live every Friday at 11am ET. Join us live or register to attend at https://go.ssandsi.com/coffeebreak

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