President Biden said Tuesday that Delaware firefighters nearly died battling a small fire in his kitchen in 2004 — even though a local fire official said at the time that the blaze was quickly extinguished.
Biden often turns heads with questionable biographical claims and made the remark while attesting to the bravery of firefighters during virtual remarks to a fire prevention summit.
“I was doing ‘Meet the Press’ and lightning struck a little pond behind my house, came up through the ground into the air conditioning system and ended up generating thick black smoke,” Biden said of the blaze at his home in Wilmington, Del. “And from the basement to the third floor, the attic, everything was ruined.
“And the kitchen floor — we almost lost a couple firefighters, they tell me, because the kitchen floor was — the burning between the beams and in the house in addition to, it almost collapsed into the basement,” the president added.
Biden drew criticism just last week for telling a less detailed version of the story to Hurricane Ian victims in Florida, saying “we know the feeling” of experiencing significant home damage.
“We didn’t lose our home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it,” Biden said.
At the time of the fire at Biden’s home, Cranston Heights, Del., Fire Company Chief George Lamborn told The Associated Press, “Luckily, we got it pretty early. The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
The Post could not immediately reach Lamborn or a member of the...
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