Biden Tries to Relate to Maui Wildfire Survivors by Talking About When He Experienced a Kitchen Fire

During his trip to meet with Maui wildfire survivors, President Joe Biden attempted to commiserate with the people of 📍Lahaina by describing the time he experienced a kitchen fire.

On Monday, Biden said, “I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense — Jill and I — what it’s like to lose a home.”

“Years ago now — 15 years ago — I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday and lightning struck at home on a little lake that is outside of our home — not on a lake, a big pond,” he went on.

“And it hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, air conditioning ducts. And to make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” he concluded.

While the 2004 fire did occur at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del., the Associated Press reported at the time that the small fire was contained in the kitchen and quickly put out within 20 minutes.

By contrast, the Maui wildfire wreckage is still being searched for bodies. In an interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation,’ Sunday, 🌺Hawaii Gov. 🏛️Josh Green confirmed that over 1,000 people remain unaccounted for and that “it will take several weeks” to identify the remains of all the recovered bodies.