This evening, you would normally be treated to another fine episode of Stop Drop and Roll with the Punches with your host Billy D. Hayes. Many of you know that Billy, immediately after recuperating from a recent stay in the hospital, is already back on the road again presenting the Privilege of Leadership at the FDSOA in Phoenix.

So tonight, we’d like to bring you a blast from the past and offer you the listening pleasure of witnessing Billy’s very first podcast show from way back in February of 2011.

Back then, Firefighter Netcast was fairly new and we were pleased to bring Billy to our program line up at that time. Stop Drop and Roll with the Punches is a program in which Billy brings us face to face with the fire service segment known as “Community Risk Reduction.†His name is synonymous with fire prevention, and he brings us his wealth of experience and people to help us understand the importance of community risk reduction.

Fire prevention, you say? Yawwn….. Not so!

As we bring you these premiere programs, keep in mind just how sizzling hot this topic has risen to the forefront in the social mediasphere recently. The topic of “fire porn†has bubbled up to the surface with much clamor from firefighters all over the nation. So, as we work our way through the programs, we’ll begin at the beginning and culminate at the present: addressing the fire service’s current culture of change in order to make the changes necessary to ensure the profession continues to grow and flourish. It was true then, and it’s true now.

So without further ado, here is the first part of Billy D Hayes’s first episode of Stop Drop and Roll with the Punches from February of 2011, featuring four signature fire service professionals to help Billy celebrate the event:

Chief Dennis Rubin, past chief of Wasington DC Fire EMS

Chief Alan Schuman GA State Fire Marshal

Fire Marshal Mike Love Montgomery MD

WY State Fire Marshall Jim Narva

Billy D. Hayes is the host of “Stop, Drop, and Roll with the Punches” heard each month here on Fire Weekly Radio.

Billy D. Hayes is Vice President of Marketing, Outreach and Admissions for Columbia Southern University in Orange Beach, AL, where he also serves on the Fire & EMS Administration Advisory Councils and is a Faculty Instructor with the Alan Brunacini Fire-Rescue Leadership Institute. Previously he served as the Director of Community Affairs for the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department and as the Fire Chief for the City of Riverdale in Clayton County, Georgia where he served for eight years of his twenty-two year fire service career. In addition, he served as the State Educator for the Georgia Insurance & Safety Fire Commissioner’s / State Fire Marshal’s Office and as a Firefighter/Paramedic and Assistant Fire Marshal for the City of Morrow Fire Department in Clayton County. He held certifications as a firefighter, paramedic, and instructor in various fields. In addition, he volunteers and serves as the Public Information Officer for Gulf Shores Fire Rescue (AL). He is a graduate of Georgia Military College and is pursuing additional degrees in Organizational Leadership from Columbia Southern University. He also is a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program, Leadership Clayton, the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute, and has a Certificate in Local Government Management from the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute. He served as an adjunct instructor for the Georgia Fire Academy and is a current adjunct instructor with the Alabama Fire College and has participated in many course developments. Furthermore, he speaks across the nation and has had various articles published on fire service issues including his columns on www.FireRescue1.com, and hosts his Internet radio show Stop Drop and Roll With the Punches on www.fireweekly.com. He served as the National Advocate Manager of the Everyone Goes Home program through the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. He is a Past-President of the Metro Atlanta Fire Chiefs Association, Past-Chairman of the Board for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation, Past-President of the Georgia Public Safety Educators Association, past Coalition Leader for Clayton County SAFE KIDS, and past-Chair for the Leadership Clayton Board of Advisors. In addition, he holds membership in the International Association of Fire Chiefs where he is a member of the Life Safety Section, the Health, Safety, & Survival Section, and served on the Fire-Rescue International Program Planning Committee, and the NFPA’s Educator Network and Urban Fire Safety Task Force.