Some asked to hug, others got hugged without asking and one man, wearing the only clothes he had left, just clasped hands with Joe Biden as the US president made an emotional tour Friday of a devastating Colorado wildfire.
The 79-year-old Democrat has long been famous for his ability to show empathy with the suffering and his powers were on full display as he moved along a line of families and firefighters in Louisville, which burned to cinders in the December 30 Marshall Fire."I'm not even properly dressed because this is all I have," the man said to Biden, gesturing at his long shorts.
Biden held the father's hand for a long time, and after shaking hands with a dozen firefighters, gave them all ceremonial coins. Biden later made remarks from a local recreation center, where he said "there's nothing so frightening, in my view," as fire. Referring to huge wildfires around the country in an age of climate change, Biden said "more land has burned in the United States... than make up the entire, in terms of total acreage, as the entire state of New Jersey."
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