Bruce » 21 Aug 2023, 8:34 pm » wrote: ↑
'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,' Biden detailed in his Tuesday remarks. 'Ended up generating this thick, black smoke… And from the basement to the third floor, the attic, everything was ruined.'
'We almost lost a couple firefighters, they tell me, because the kitchen floor was – the burning between beams in the house, in addition to almost collapsed into the basement,' the president said in his virtual remarks on Tuesday.
Biden also brought up the incident during his speech in Fort Myer, Florida last week after surveying the devastation from Hurricane Ian.
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A 20 minute fire in 2002 destroyed almost everything in his and Jill’s home due to smoke damage.
It was covered by insurance.
Ever see a home where a fire has burned 20 minutes?