Joe Biden retells story of house fire he claims almost killed Jill, his cat and destroyed his Corvette for the SEVENTH time…even though blaze was far smaller

Joe Biden has repeated an exaggerated story about how a 2004 house fire nearly killed his wife Jill and their cat and destroyed his Corvette — even though the fire was much smaller.

The 81-year-old president shared the claim while campaigning in Michigan on Thursday for the upcoming presidential elections.

He told a crowd that firefighters once “saved my wife, my cat and my Corvette” while battling a fire at his Delaware home after a lightning strike.

But Biden’s home suffered a “small fire confined to the kitchen,” according to reports at the time, and firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control in just 20 minutes.

He has now told this exaggerated story at least seven times as president, including in August after the devastating wildfires in Hawaii that killed 101 people.

The 81-year-old president has told the story at least seven times as president, including in August after the devastating wildfires in Hawaii that killed 101 people.

Biden repeated the exaggerated story on the campaign trail to a small group of people in Michigan.

He sparked controversy after telling the story during a visit to Hawaii in August, when the state was experiencing the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history.

“I don’t want to compare the hardships, but we have a little bit of an idea, Jill and I, of what it’s like to lose a home,” Biden said.

“Years ago, fifteen years ago now, when I was in Washington for Meet The Press, it was a sunny Sunday and lightning struck a small lake outside our house – not a lake, but a pond.”

He said the spark went through the wires, into the heating ducts and into the kitchen.

“Long story short, I almost lost my wife, my Corvette 67, and my cat.

Biden repeated the exaggerated story on the campaign trail to a small group of people in Michigan

He told the crowd that firefighters once “saved my wife, my cat and my Corvette” while battling a fire at his Delaware home after a lightning strike.

“But all joking aside, I was looking at the firefighters, the way they responded.”

It’s an anecdote Biden often tells in times of tragedy, and he made similar comments to the victims of Hurricane Idalia in August.

Speaking at a firefighters conference in March, he said: “Lightning struck a pond behind my house, went under the pipe and caught fire under the floorboards of my house.

‘It was in the summer. Air conditioning was on. Smoke so thick all three floors.

“My fire department was there to go in and save my wife and get her out; the cat; and my ’67 Corvette.’

Biden sparked controversy after he mentioned it during a visit to Hawaii in August after the state suffered the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history.

While in October 2021 he made the bizarre claim that they almost lost a few firefighters in the kitchen fire. Pictured: Biden speaks during a visit to the Philadelphia Fire Department in December

But in October 2021, he made the bizarre claim that they almost lost a few firefighters in the kitchen fire.

“We almost lost a couple of firefighters, they tell me, because the kitchen floor burned between the beams in the house and almost collapsed into the basement,” he said at a summit on fire prevention.

In November 2021, he told an infrastructure event: “I know, after a house burned down with my wife in it – she got out safely, God willing – and now that a significant part of it has burned down, I can say: 10 minutes makes a huge difference.’

However, the stories of George Lamborn, chief of the Cranston Heights Fire Department, are much less dramatic.

“Luckily we were there quite early,” he said at the time. ‘The fire was under control within 20 minutes.’

The fire brigade arrived on site due to heavy smoke development, but was able to contain the flames to the kitchen.