President Joe Biden is facing criticism for attempting to empathize with the victims of the Hawaii wildfires that have killed over 100 people by comparing it to his experience with a small kitchen fire.
Biden traveled to Hawaii earlier this week, nearly two weeks after wildfires broke out in Maui County that have caused 115 confirmed fatalities as of Tuesday. The latest update by Maui County Tuesday reveals that the Olinda and Kula fires are 85% contained after burning a combined 1,283 acres, while the Lahaina fire is 90% contained after damaging about 2,170 acres. According to county officials, between 1,000 and 1,100 people remain unaccounted for as the search for survivors continues.
As the president addressed victims of the wildfires in the hard-hit community of Lahaina, he declared that he didn’t “want to compare difficulties” but insisted that he and First Lady Jill Biden have “a little sense” of “what it’s like to lose a home.”
The 80-year-old recalled how more than a decade ago, lightning struck “a little lake that’s outside of our home” that “hit the wire that came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, air conditioning duct.”
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