{"id":1674765,"date":"2022-10-05T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674765"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:36:50","slug":"biden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Claims He \u2018Lost An Awful Lot\u2019 In House Fire. Jill Biden Reported The Small Kitchen Fire That Was Doused In 20 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he once \u201clost an awful lot\u201d in a house fire \u2014 but fact-checkers have previously said that the 2004 fire was contained to the kitchen and doused within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, to assess the damage left behind by the high winds and dangerous storm surge of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hurricane-ian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Ian<\/a> \u2014 but when he took a moment to let Floridians know that he understood what they were going through, the story he shared appeared to be at best an exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Schwartz shared video of the comment, which he captioned, \u201cJoe Biden says he once \u2018lost an awful lot\u2019 of his home in a fire. That never happened; he made it up. Totally normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden says he once \u201clost an awful lot\u201d of his home in a fire. That never happened; he made it up. Totally normal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W7Ma1YHf7O\">pic.twitter.com\/W7Ma1YHf7O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArthurSchwartz\/status\/1577744503729016832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know from experience how much \u2014 how much anxiety and fear and concern there are in the people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t lose our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it about 15 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last November, Biden also said that his house had \u201cburned down\u201d and that first lady Jill Biden had been in the house at the time \u2014 but that she had been able to get out safely.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, The Washington Post\u2019s fact-checker Glenn Kessler noted that there had, in fact, been a fire at the Biden home in 2004 \u2013 but that it had not been anywhere near as large or as damaging as the president appeared to suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler shared an Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firehouse.com\/home\/news\/10516121\/lightning-sparks-fire-at-bidens-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news report<\/a> detailing the incident, tweeting, \u201cBiden today: We \u2018had a house burn down with my wife in it. She got out safely.\u2019 2004 AP news report: \u2018A small fire that was contained to the kitchen \u2026 Jill reported the fire \u2026 The fire was under control in 20 minutes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden today: We &#8220;had a house burn down with my wife in it. She got out safely.&#8221;<br \/>2004 AP news report: &#8220;A small fire that was contained to the kitchen\u2026.Jill reported the fire\u2026The fire was under control in 20 minutes.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2VcAebg9r5\">https:\/\/t.co\/2VcAebg9r5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1460735080813535246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Cranston Heights Fire Company Chief George Lamborn, when firefighters arrived on the scene, they could see heavy smoke coming from the house \u2014 but because they arrived on the scene early, they were able to keep the flames from spreading outside of the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, we got it pretty early. The fire was under control in 20 minutes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he once \u201clost an awful lot\u201d in a house fire \u2014 but fact-checkers have previously said that the 2004 fire was contained to the kitchen and doused within 20 minutes. Biden traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, to assess the damage left behind by the high winds and dangerous &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1674769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}