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President Joe Biden addressed the International Association of Fire Fighters Monday and came armed with jokes but also sincere thanks for when fire fighters played a role in the president's life.
Biden said firefighters saved him when he suffered a cranial aneurysm in 1988 and came to the rescue when a lightning strike started a house fire at his Delaware residence in 2004.
'My fire company at home saved my life,' Biden said, detailing how his fire company got him to Walter Reed from Delaware during a snowstorm so he could have surgery to fix his aneurysm. 'They had to take the top of my head of a couple times, to see if I had a brain,' the president joked.
Biden then recalled the 2004 house fire - which he often brings up when addressing fire fighter groups.
'But guess what, my fire company was there to go in and save my wife, get her out, the cat and my '67 Corvette,' he said to laughs.
President Joe Biden addressed the International Association of Fire Fighters Monday and came armed with jokes but also sincere thanks for when fire fighters played a role in the president's life
Then Sen. Joe Biden talks to the press after returning to Capitol Hill in 1988 after undergoing brain surgery for aneurysms
He joked that there were 'three political parties in Delaware' - Democrats, Republicans and fire fighters - and he won his first longshot Senate bid in 1972 due to support from the fire fighters.
'You've been with me my whole career,' the president said.
He then joked, 'God made man and then he made a few firefighters, because you're all nuts.'
'You're the only ones who run into flames, everybody runs away from them,' Biden acknowledged.
He also said that a fire fighter's profession 'defines' them.
'What you do takes enormous courage,' Biden told
