{"id":2007921,"date":"2023-08-22T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:23:59","slug":"watch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden shares personal kitchen fire story to comfort Maui wildfire victims."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwatch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors%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=2007921&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--><div>\n<h2>President Biden Empathizes with Hawaii Wildfire Survivors<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2062 expressed his understanding of\u200b the pain of losing a home \u2064during a meeting with\u200c survivors of the devastating Hawaii wildfires. He shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beyond-order-12-more-rules-for-life-is-another-masterpiece-from-jordan-peterson\/\" title=\"\u2018Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life\u2019 Is Another Masterpiece From Jordan Peterson\">personal anecdote<\/a> about a small fire \u200bthat broke out \u200bin \u200chis kitchen back in \u200b2004, stating, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to compare difficulties, but Jill and I have a little sense of\u200c what it&#8217;s\u2063 like to lose a home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden addressed the group\u2063 in Maui, where the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">death toll<\/a>\u200c has reached at least 115, with nearly 1,000 people still missing. Surprisingly, Biden&#8217;s FEMA chief failed to provide an explanation for the missing individuals this \u200cweek.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting \u2063on the incident in his own life, Biden recounted, &#8220;Years ago now,\u2064 15 years ago, I was in \u2062Washington doing Meet the Press.\u200d It \u2064was a sunny Sunday when lightning struck our \u200chome near a small\u200d lake, not on a lake, but a big pond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The President mentioned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-recalls-small-kitchen-fire-at-his-home-to-console-maui-wildfire-survivors\/\" title=\"Biden shares personal kitchen fire story to comfort Maui wildfire victims.\">firefighters bravely confronted<\/a> the flames, and he narrowly escaped losing his wife, his &#8217;67 Corvette, and \u2063his cat. However, the Delaware fire \u200bdepartment, which responded to the 2004 fire, stated last year that the incident was insignificant and contained within 20 minutes. They did not report \u2063encountering any fire beyond the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u2063 effort to connect with the survivors, Biden also brought up the tragic \u2062death of his first wife and daughter in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>During their visit to the devastated state, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden spent six hours surveying the damage from \u200bthe air. The President emphasized that his administration\u200b would show respect \u200bfor the sacred grounds and traditions affected by the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas further emphasized the administration&#8217;s commitment to \u200dcultural sensitivity in their response to the \u2063crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Biden faced criticism for initially brushing\u2062 off questions about the\u2062 wildfires and for his perceived lack of leadership during the \u2063disaster. After addressing the situation two weeks ago, the President remained silent \u200cfor four days before commenting on it \u200cagain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden empathized with survivors of the Hawaii wildfires, sharing that he understood the pain of losing a home. Reflecting on a small fire incident in his kitchen back in 2004, he acknowledged that while he didn&#8217;t want to compare hardships, he and Jill had a glimpse of that experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2007922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007921","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}