{"id":2008173,"date":"2023-08-22T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-speaking-to-maui-fire-victims-compares-deadly-wildfires-to-his-small-kitchen-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:55:50","slug":"biden-speaking-to-maui-fire-victims-compares-deadly-wildfires-to-his-small-kitchen-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-speaking-to-maui-fire-victims-compares-deadly-wildfires-to-his-small-kitchen-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden compares deadly wildfires to his kitchen fire while addressing Maui fire victims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-speaking-to-maui-fire-victims-compares-deadly-wildfires-to-his-small-kitchen-fire%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=2008173&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--><h2>President Biden&#8217;s Empathy for Lahaina Fire Victims<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden, speaking this week to victims of the \u200ctragic Lahaina \u200dfires in Maui, \u2062compared the \u200dsituation \u2062to a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-wave-of-portland-police-quit-amid-massive-spike-in-shootings-and-stabbings-fire-dept-responding-to-10-homeless-tent-fires-a-day\/\" title=\"Another Wave Of Portland Police Quit Amid Massive Spike In Shootings And Stabbings; Fire Dept. Responding To 10+ Homeless Tent Fires A Day\">small fire<\/a> in his home nearly \u200btwo decades ago that was\u200b contained to his kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064Maui wildfires earlier this\u2062 month killed well over 100 people, with \u200cmore than 1,000 still unaccounted for, and destroyed nearly 3,000 structures, according to state and local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-speaking-to-maui-fire-victims-compares-deadly-wildfires-to-his-small-kitchen-fire\/\" title=\"Biden compares deadly wildfires to his kitchen fire while addressing Maui fire victims.\">faced \u200bintense criticism early<\/a> on for vacationing and seemingly \u2064not\u200c taking a personal interest in the tragedy,\u2062 visited this island on Monday and generated more controversy with his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u200b don\u2019t want to compare\u200b difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and\u200c I, what it\u2019s like to lose \u200da\u2063 home,\u201d Biden said. \u201cYears ago \u2014 now 15\u200b years ago \u2014 I \u200bwas in Washington doing \u2018Meet the Press.\u2019 It was a sunny Sunday, and lightning struck at\u2063 home\u200b on a little lake that\u2019s \u200doutside \u200bof our home \u2014 not a lake, a big pond \u2014 and hit a \u2064wire and came up underneath our home \u200cinto the heating ducts \u2014 the air conditioning ducts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo \u2064make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">long story short<\/a>, I\u200d almost lost my wife, my\u200d \u201867 Corvette, and my cat,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut all kidding aside, I \u200bwatched \u200bthe firefighters, the way\u200c they responded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said firefighters ran\u200b into the \u201cflames\u201d in his home\u200c \u201cto save my wife and save my family. Not a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smoke \u2014 and the \u2063firefighters here can tell you \u2014 sometimes smoke is \u200bso thick.\u200b From the\u200c windows out, it was that thick inside the \u2062home. And \u200dwe were \u2014 we were\u200c insured. We did not have \u2063any problem, but being out of our home for a\u2064 better part of a year was difficult,\u201d Biden added. \u201cI\u200d can only imagine what it\u2019s\u200c like to lose your home completely\u200c burned to the\u2063 ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biden-lahaina-maui-wildfires-survivors-gets-it-small-house-fire-2023-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Associated Press at the time said that the fire was \u201csmall\u201d and \u201ccontained to the\u200b kitchen.\u201d The Delaware fire chief said they\u200b got \u200cto\u200c the home quickly, and the situation \u2064was \u200cunder control in a\u2063 matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden tells Maui wildfire\u200d victims, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to \u200dcompare \u2063difficulties, but\u2026&#8221; then tells a made up story about losing his house to a fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2004 AP report, it was \u201ca small fire\u2026contained to the kitchen\u201d that \u201cwas under control in \u206220 minutes.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DNY0Tyatg7\">pic.twitter.com\/DNY0Tyatg7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1693783865993973931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, addressing victims of the devastating Lahaina fires in Maui, drew a parallel to a fire he experienced in his kitchen long ago. However, the Maui wildfires, which occurred recently, claimed over 100 lives and left over 1,000 individuals missing, causing extensive destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2008174,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2008173","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}